Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many new staff have been recruited to work on the Access to Work programme in each of the last six months for which data is available; and whether her Department plans to recruit more staff to work on this programme.
Please find figures for new staff that have been recruited to work on the Access to Work programme for the last 6 months.
Month | Number of new staff |
November 2023 | 14 |
December 2023 | 1 |
January 2024 | 1 |
February 2024 | 30 |
March 2024 | 4 |
April (at 23/4/24) | 7 |
An additional 95 staff will be redeployed to Access to Work in May/June 2024 and another 13 are expected through recruitment in May 2024.
Month | Number of staff |
May / June 2024 | 108 |