Work Programme

(asked on 10th September 2014) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much his Department has spent on job outcome payments for each Work Programme Payment Group since June 2011.


Answered by
Esther McVey Portrait
Esther McVey
Minister without Portfolio (Cabinet Office)
This question was answered on 13th October 2014

The Work Programme has revolutionised how we help the long-term unemployed into work. It is designed to be good value for the taxpayer because providers only get paid on the results they achieve when they get someone into a lasting job, usually at least six months (or 3 for the hardest to help). So far more than 330,000 long-term unemployed people have been helped to escape long-term unemployment thanks to the Work Programme, which has contributed to the largest annual drop in long-term unemployment since 1998.

The below table shows job outcome payments from the most recently published financial information, covering the period from June 2011 to the 31st March 2014.

Payment Group

Job Outcome payments

1) Jobseeker’s Allowance 18 to 24

£80,280,000

2) Jobseeker’s Allowance 25 and over

£151,468,000

3) Jobseeker’s Allowance early entrants

£74,377,000

4) Jobseeker’s Allowance ex-Incapacity Benefit

£3,537,000

5) Employment and Support Allowance volunteer

£3,254,000

6) New Employment and Support Allowance claimant

£12,030,000

7) New Employment and Support Allowance ex-Incapacity Benefit

£3,254,000

8) Incapacity Benefit and Income Support

£521,000

9) Jobseeker’s Allowance prison leavers

£3,068,000

Total payments

£331,789,000

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