Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many individuals (a) were referred to, (b) participated in and (c) had a job outcome from Restart programme in each of the financial years it was available.

On 15 December 2022 the department published an ad-hoc statistical release for the Restart Scheme. The statistics include information on referrals, starts and job outcomes since the scheme started in June 2021 and is available at:

Restart Scheme to September 2022 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)