Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people were in employment six months following the end of their participation in the Local Supported Employment programme in each of the last five years.
The Proof of Concept for Local Supported Employment (LSE) went live in November 2017 and ran for 18 months in nine local authorities. The figures in the table below are taken from management information supplied by the participating local authorities. It includes the total number of referrals to the service, the total number of starts on the service and the number of job starts.
| Referrals | Starts | Job Starts |
Totals | 580 | 560 | 260 |
We do not hold information on the numbers in employment six months following the end of their participation in the Local Supported Employment programme.
The management information presented here has not been subjected to the usual standard of quality assurance associated with official statistics but is provided in the interests of transparency.
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The next stage of LSE began in November 2022, operating across 29 local authority areas, running until March 2025. Grant funding represents an investment of £7.3 million over the next three years.