Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people (a) were eligible for and (b) participated in the Work Programme in each parliamentary constituency in the East of England in each month since October 2012.
In response to the first part of the question, statistics on the number of people who were eligible for the Work Programme are not available.
Information on those referred to the Work Programme, by parliamentary constituency, is published and can be found at:
http://tabulation-tool.dwp.gov.uk/WorkProg/tabtool.html
Guidance for users is available at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dwp-tabulation-tool-guidance