Employment Schemes
(asked on 2nd April 2025) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Sherlock on 1 April, what assessment they have made of the number of people who moved into work as a result of previous employment programmes, and what the cost of those programmes was.
There have been many impact assessments that estimate the extra people in work as a result of previous employment programmes, and also the benefits saved to the Exchequer and Society set against the costs of the programmes. Some recent evaluations cover the: Work Programme, European Support Fund, Work Choice, Job Entry Targeted Support, Job Finding Support and Kickstart programmes. I am depositing these impact documents in the Libraries of the House. See links to these reports below.
The Work Programme: impact assessment - GOV.UK
Impact evaluation of the European Social Fund 2014-2020 programme in England - GOV.UK
Work Choice impact evaluation - GOV.UK
JETS (Job Entry Targeted Support) Impact Evaluation - GOV.UK
Job Finding Support programme: A Quantitative Impact Assessment - GOV.UK