Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he plans to take to monitor the outcomes of support provided through Jobcentre Plus for (a) disabled and (b) autistic people.

The “Improving Lives: The Work, Health and Disability Green Paper” was published on 31 October 2016 and provides further details of the overarching Personal Support Package for people with health conditions and disabilities, with a range of new interventions and initiatives designed to provide support that is tailored to the individual needs of claimants. Plans are currently being developed for how we monitor this. We already monitor and publish Work Choice and Work Programme outcomes, the latest published Work Programme statistics are available at https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/602238/work-programme-statistics-to-december-2016.pdf