Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much of the additional £100 million funding for employment support announced in Summer Budget 2015 and referred in the Work, health and disability green paper: improving lives, published in October 2016, will be used to fund the new work and health programme.

As part of our broader new Personal Support Package, we are investing £330m on support for people with limited capability for work, over the course of four years from April 2017, rising from £60m in 2017/18 to £100m in 2020/21. Details of the Package in 2017/18 were set out in the Improving Lives Green Paper. Decisions on future year spending will be made in due course. Participation on the Work & Health Programme will be voluntary; therefore, at this early stage we cannot exactly determine how much of the Personal Support Package will be spent on the new Work & Health Programme.