Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the policy paper entitled Transforming Support: The Health and Disability White Paper published on 15 March 2023, how many people have been referred to the Work and Health Programme due to a learning disability in each of the last three years for which data is available.

Referrals to the Work and Health Programme (WHP) are recorded in one of three groups: disability, early access, or long term unemployed. Information relating to the nature of a participant’s disability is not captured. Therefore, the information requested is not held.

WHP statistics are published quarterly, the latest set of official statistics includes data to November 2022, which can be found by selecting the link below:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/work-and-health-programme-statistics

To be helpful, the table below shows the number of individuals referred to WHP who belong to the disability eligibility group over the three years prior to the end of November 2022.