Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what her Department's budget was for its Dynamic Purchasing System for employment in each of the last five years.

The information is not available.

The Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) is used to purchase training provision from a range of providers to help our claimants move into or closer to work.

Expenditure through the DPS is part of the overall expenditure incurred through the Flexible Support Fund (FSF). Whilst there is a budget for FSF as a whole, the budget is not split into individual areas of expenditure. There is therefore no separately identifiable budget allocation for DPS.