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Written Answers — Work and Pensions: Work Programme (10 Jul 2013)

Mark Hoban: It is not Government policy that individuals who are dissatisfied with their Work programme provider should be able to leave the Work Programme. When a claimant volunteers for early access to the Work programme, they will have a Work programme referral interview with their Jobcentre Plus adviser, who will set out all the circumstances around their referral of which they need to be aware. In...

Written Answers — Work and Pensions: Employment: Wales (26 Jul 2010)

Chris Grayling: The Government have announced their plans for radical reforms of the welfare to work system and the implementation of the Work Programme. The Work Programme will be an integrated package of support providing personalised help for people on out of work benefits, based on need rather than benefit claimed. Once implemented, the Work Programme will supersede much of the complicated raft of...

Written Answers — Work and Pensions: Employment Schemes (31 Mar 2011)

Chris Grayling: We have provided volumes for each contract package area but have not included further geographical breakdowns. Therefore we do not have Work Programme volumes for Glasgow. The following table includes the number of customers expected to join the Work Programme in Scotland and Great Britain. Scotland Great Britain 2011-12 57,000 605,000 2012-13 53,000 565,000 2013-14 47,000...

Written Answers — Work and Pensions: Action for Employment (28 Feb 2012)

Chris Grayling: The Department has the following current contracts with A4e. Programme Contract package area Area covered Contract No. Estimated annual value (£) Work programme 2 East Midlands WP/CPA02/A4E (1)— Work programme 4 East London WP/CPA04/A4E (1)— Work programme 6 Merseyside, Halton, Cumbria, Lancashire WP/CPA06/A4E (1)— Work programme 9 Thames Valley,...

Written Answers — Work and Pensions: Jobseeker's Allowance (20 Dec 2011)

Chris Grayling: 160,000 wage incentives worth £2,275 each will be available to employers who recruit an 18 to 24-year-old who is participating in the Work programme. The point at which an 18 to 24-year-old is referred to the Work programme depends on the type of benefit they are claiming and their individual circumstances. Some of the most disadvantaged young people claiming jobseekers allowance (JSA) will...

Written Answers — Work and Pensions: Work Programme: Glasgow (20 Dec 2010)

Chris Grayling: We want to ensure that as many people benefit from the Work Programme as soon as possible, and will launch the Work Programme as soon as providers are ready to start delivery in each contract package area. We aim to have the new Work Programme in place nationally by the summer of 2011. We are determined to ensure that there is continuity of provision, and that the transition to the Work...

Written Answers — Work and Pensions: Work Programme ( 7 Mar 2013)

Brian H Donohoe: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (1) what proportion of people placed in work under the Work programme qualify for tax credits; (2) what proportion of placements under the Work programme are in jobs paying less than the living wage; (3) what proportion of placements under the Work programme are in jobs of 30 hours per week or less; (4) what proportion of placements...

Written Answers — Work and Pensions: Work Programme (24 Jan 2011)

Chris Grayling: The commercial process for the Work programme is on track. We have published the list of preferred bidders for the Framework for Employment Related Support Services and will publish the Work Programme Invitation to Tender before the end of the month. We want to ensure that as many people benefit from the Work Programme as soon as possible, and will launch the Work programme as soon as...

Written Answers — Work and Pensions: Employment Schemes (18 Oct 2010)

Chris Grayling: The precise Work Programme design is still in the process of being finalised. However, we are committed to working directly with local enterprise partnerships with an interest in worklessness to discuss ideas around the Work Programme and explore how we can work most effectively together. Our framework for commissioning the Work Programme sets out clearly our commitment to engaging with local...

Written Ministerial Statements — Work and Pensions: Work Programme Official Statistics (27 Jun 2013)

Mark Hoban: The Department for Work and Pensions has today released official statistics covering the performance of the Work programme up to the end of March 2013, showing performance to the end of the second financial year of the Work programme . The Work programme is designed to help people who are at risk of becoming long-term unemployed. Many of those being supported by the Work programme are in...

Oral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions: Jobseeker’s Allowance ( 5 Nov 2012)

Alison McGovern: We are talking about sanctions, carrots and sticks, and the Work programme is supposed to help people back into work. A constituent who had been on the Work programme and recently found part-time work has contacted me. He was concerned that the Work programme had been little or no help and that, although his employment was due to his own hard work, the Work programme contractor was paid...

Written Answers — Department for Work and Pensions: Employment Schemes: Disability (21 Nov 2016)

Penny Mordaunt: ...programme and will not transfer to the Work and Health Programme, although no decision has yet been made. The Work and Health Programme will launch in 2017 following the end of referrals to the Work Programme and Work Choice.

Written Answers — Work and Pensions: Work Programme (13 Feb 2013)

Mark Hoban: It is too soon to judge the effectiveness of payment by results in the Work programme—we have just over one year's data for a programme that is designed to support people for two years or more. However, we know that the Work programme is helping people off benefit and into employment, and that job entries are increasing. ERSA, the trade body for the welfare to work industry, has published...

Written Answers — Work and Pensions: Access to Work Programme: Barking (18 Oct 2011)

Margaret Hodge: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (1) in what (a) industries and (b) occupations people have been placed on the Work programme in Barking constituency to date; (2) how many people on the Work programme in Barking constituency were placed in employment in (a) June, (b) July and (c) August 2011; (3) how many people in Barking constituency have been referred to A4e to...

Written Answers — Work and Pensions: Work Programme (20 Dec 2012)

Mark Hoban: ...to offering a transparent view of performance across all its contracted employment provision. In support of this, the DWP's Open Data Strategy includes a series of commitments to publish detailed Work programme statistics. Official statistics on referrals and attachments to the Work programme were published for the first time on 21 February 2012 and outcome statistics on 27 November...

Written Answers — Work and Pensions: Employment: Young People (26 Jul 2010)

Chris Grayling: The Government have announced plans for the radical reform of the welfare to work system, and for the introduction of the Work Programme. The Work Programme will be an integrated package of support providing personalised help for people who find themselves out of work, based on need and not benefit claimed. The final shape and scope of the Work Programme has not yet been decided, but we...

Written Ministerial Statements — Work and Pensions: Work Programme (Framework Providers) (25 Nov 2010)

Chris Grayling: The Government have previously announced their plans for radical reforms of the welfare-to-work system and the implementation of the Work programme. Work to deliver the programme is progressing quickly and we are on track to deliver nationwide by the summer of 2011. Today we announce the providers who will be invited to bid to deliver the Work programme and subsequent employment-related...

Written Answers — Work and Pensions: Work Programme (15 Oct 2013)

Esther McVey: Employment and support allowance, incapacity benefit, income support (England only) and jobseeker allowance claimants are able to gain early access to the Work programme. JSA claimants in the 18 to 24 and 25+ claimant groups would normally access the Work programme at nine or 12 months. However, since June 2012 the Department has made early access to the Work programme available to those JSA...

Written Answers — Work and Pensions: Work Programme: Clackmannanshire ( 3 Feb 2014)

Gordon Banks: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (1) what proportion of direct payments to sub-contractors of prime providers made by his Department under the Work Programme related to delivery of the Work Programme in Clackmannanshire; (2) what proportion of direct payments to individual prime providers made by his Department under the Work Programme related to delivery of the Work...

Written Answers — Work and Pensions: Long Term Unemployed People: Tyne and Wear (26 Nov 2013)

Esther McVey: The Work programme provides support, work experience and training for up to two years to help claimants that are long-term unemployed or face significant challenges, to find and stay in work. Claimants who do not find sustained work during their time on the Work programme receive intensive Jobcentre Plus support to build on their time on the Work programme. From April 2014, under ‘Help to...


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