Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much his Department has spent on the Jobcentre Plus rapid response service in each year since 2003-04.

Information requested can only be provided in part due to 7 year archive period for financials data.

Spend on Rapid Response Service has therefore been:

Period £

2007-08 579,853

2008-09 851,954

2009-10 9,963,293

2010-11 6,472,119

2011-12 3,432,793

2012-13 4,020,041