Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people have received Intensive Personalised Employment Support, by local authority area, in each of the last five years.

Statistics on Intensive Personalised Employment Support are planned for future publication and will be formally released, adhering to the Official Statistics guidance. Although MI is available internally, it is important that it remains restricted and is not shared externally prior to release of the Official Statistics.

The publication of official information is a properly planned and managed process, to ensure that the data is accurate once placed into the public domain. It is in the public interest to ensure that the information is available to all members of the public at the same time, and premature publication could undermine this principle.