Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people were enrolled on the Work Programme in (a) Barnsley East constituency, (b) Barnsley and (c) South Yorkshire in each of the last five years; and how many such people found employment through that Programme.

The information requested for all those placed into employment from the Work Programme, is not available.

The information available is the number of Work Programme Referrals, Attachments and Job Outcomes, by various geographies and this can be found at:

http://tabulation-tool.dwp.gov.uk/WorkProg/tabtool.html

Guidance for users can be found at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dwp-tabulation-tool-guidance