Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Chancellor's summer economic update of 8 July 2020, what the timetable is for the recruitment of the new work coaches announced in that update; and what estimate she has made of the proportion of those so recruited that will be (a) redeployed from within her Department, (b) redeployed from other Government departments and (c) newly recruited into the Civil Service.

With reference to the Chancellor’s summer economic update of 8 July, we are doubling the number of work coaches to 27,000 by March 2021. We shall recruit an additional 4500 work coaches required by October through a blend of cross-government promotion and external campaigns.