Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people have been referred to mandatory work activity in each month since May 2011.

The latest Official Statistics on mandatory programmes from May 2011 to February 2014, including the number of referrals to Mandatory Work Activity, are available at https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/pre-work-programme-and-get-britain-working#mandatory-programmes.

The next release in the series will be published on 20 November 2014, containing statistics up to and including August 2014.