Employment and Support Allowance

(asked on 17th November 2016) - View Source
Questioner
Stephen Timms Portrait
Stephen Timms
(Labour - East Ham)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much was spent through the Work Programme on employment support for claimants of employment and support allowance in each of the last six years.

Answered by
Penny Mordaunt Portrait
Penny Mordaunt
Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons
This question was answered on 22nd November 2016

Work Programme Spend on ESA claimant groups

£ million

2011/12

30

2012/13

54

2013/14

65

2014/15

56

2015/16

52


The figures above agree to the DWP published Annual Report and Accounts for each of the years quoted, and those quoted in https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/325995/Work_Programme_Costs_v7_2014-07-01.pdf which contains Work Programme costs for the period from inception in June 2011 to March 2014

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