Employment and Support Allowance
(asked on 17th July 2014) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many employment and support allowance claimants aged over 50 have been (a) referred to and (b) secured a sustained job outcome from the Work Programme; and, of those, how many have secured sustained job outcomes.
This question was answered on 22nd July 2014
The information requested is shown in the table below.
Number of Work Programme Referrals, Job Outcomes and Sustained Job Outcomes for Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) claimants aged over 50, Great Britain: 1 June 2011 - 31 March 2014
Referrals | Job Outcomes | Sustained Job Outcomes | |
Total for all ESA Prognosis Customer Groups | 70,740 | 2,660 | 2,490 |