Priti Patel: Mandatory Work Activity is a supportive programme designed to help claimants who need extra support from a short work placement to re-focus their job search activity and gain further experience of work. Unemployed Jobseekers Allowance or Universal Credit claimants are referred for up to 4 weeks work experience and will participate on the placement for up to 30 hours a week. The number of...
Chris Grayling: Mandatory work activity gives extra support to a small number of jobseeker's allowance claimants who would benefit from a short period of activity. It will help them re-engage with the system, refocus their job search and gain valuable work-related disciplines, such as attending on time and regularly, carrying out specific tasks and working under supervision. Jobcentre Plus advisers have the...
Priti Patel: The Department does not disclose details of organisations who have provided work experience placements for participants in Help to Work and Mandatory Work Activity. Contracted providers source work placements for individuals referred to Help to Work Community Work Placements and Mandatory Work Activity. The names of the contracted providers are published on Gov.uk. Mandatory Work Activity...
Chris Grayling: The information requested is not available. Mandatory Work Activity is delivered by contracted providers who source the placements. The Department for Work and Pensions does not specify what the placements should be, but does specify that al placements under the Mandatory Work Activity scheme must be of benefit to the local community. Although the Department does not rule out the possibility...
Chris Grayling: Today, the Department for Work and Pensions is publishing the next set of official statistics on mandatory work activity, accompanied by an impact assessment, which forms the first part of the evaluation of the policy. Later today I will place a copy of the impact assessment in the House Library. I am also pleased to announce the Government have decided to expand the mandatory work activity...
Mark Hoban: Mandatory work activity is only available to jobseeker's allowance claimants. Rounded to the nearest 10, there were 20 disabled people in Glasgow Central constituency who started mandatory work activity between March 2012 and February 2013. Source Mandatory Programmes Official Statistics—May 2013
Mark Hoban: Mandatory Work Activity (MWA) began in May 2011. Official statistics are available for the period May 2011 up to and including August 2012. The table shows the number of starts and referrals in Scotland by financial year. Table 1: Mandatory work activity starts and referrals in Scotland by financial year for the period May 2011 up to and including August 2012 Financial year Referrals...
Lord Freud: The Government currently have no plans to introduce short-term unpaid work. Earlier this month, in our White Paper Universal Credit: Welfare that Works we announced plans to introduce mandatory work activity: a new employment programme for customers who need help to refocus their search for work and help them to find employment. When a Jobcentre Plus adviser refers an individual to mandatory...
Chris Grayling: Each Mandatory Work Activity provider receives a single payment at the point a person starts on a work placement arranged by the provider, the amount depending on the individual contract. Mandatory Work Activity and the Work programme are entirely separate programmes and separately contracted, and the fact that a provider might deliver both has no bearing on funding arrangements.
Priti Patel: ...to Work programme and starts to the Community Work Placement element of Help to Work. The statistics can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/help-to-work-quarte rly-statistics Mandatory Work Activity is a supportive programme designed to help claimants who need extra support from a short work placement to re-focus their job search activity and gain further experience of...
Chris Grayling: ...against fraud than previous employment programmes. In March 2012, against a background of public commentary on A4e, the Department was made aware of an allegation in respect of their separate mandatory work activity contract. This is very different from the Work programme. It is much smaller, shorter and focused on providing brief spells of work-related activity to individuals who will...
Chris Grayling: Statistics released on 15 February 2012 showed that between May and November 2011, there were 24,010 initial referrals to the mandatory work activity scheme. The Department has not set out an expectation for the number of referrals to the scheme. On 10 May 2011, the Minister for Welfare Reform (Lord Freud) set out to the House of Lords that the Department had funding for around 19,000...
Esther McVey: DWP delivers a number of programmes which provide work experience placements, such as Mandatory Work Activity, the Work Programme or Help to Work Community Work Placements. All of the department’s employment programmes are supportive initiatives, designed to help unemployed claimants gain skills and help them into work. Paternity leave is an entitlement that is available to people who are...
Chris Grayling: The payments made to mandatory work activity providers are Commercial in Confidence. Release of this data could compromise any future commercial negotiations about mandatory work activity.
Chris Grayling: The Department has made available around 19,000 contracted Mandatory Work Activity placements per year nationwide. Claimants are referred to Mandatory Work Activity based on their needs. There is no set number of referrals required. We pay for each claimant who starts a placement.
Stephen Timms: ...—[ Interruption. ] Time is running out and I want to give the Minister every chance to respond to these points, so let me just tell the House about one of my constituents. She was put on to mandatory work activity. She was not a long way from the labour market; indeed, after I inquired about her, she received a phone call to say that she should never have been put on mandatory work...
Chris Grayling: The Department is currently preparing detailed guidance for Mandatory Work Activity providers. The activity undertaken by customers during a placement will be designed to help them develop the labour market discipline associated with employment. They will be expected to attend on time and regularly, carry out specific tasks and work under supervision, all of which will be useful to them and...
Chuka Umunna: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (1) what proportion of those required to undertake mandatory work activity have done so in (a) small and medium-sized enterprises and (b) other businesses in (i) the UK, (ii) Lambeth local authority and (iii) Streatham constituency; (2) what proportion of those required to undertake mandatory work activity have done so with employers in...
Esther McVey: The latest Official Statistics on mandatory programmes from May 2011 to February 2014, including the number of referrals to Mandatory Work Activity, are available at https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/pre-work-programme -and-get-britain-working#mandatory-programmes. The next release in the series will be published on 20 November 2014, containing statistics up to and including...
Mark Hoban: In answer to part (a) the information is as follows: Number of benefit claimants referred to the Work programme, mandatory work activity and community action programme and the number of benefit claimants that started work experience and sector-based work academies Work placement scheme Number Claimants referred Mandatory Work Activity (May 2011 to August 2012) 68,430 ...