Work and Pensions written question – answered at on 3 December 2012.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many incentive payments his Department has made to Work programme providers since June 2011.
The Youth Contract, including wage incentives, went live on April 2012. From this point any young person attached to the Work programme could be placed into work with a wage incentive being offered to the employer.
From late July 2012, in selected ‘youth unemployment hotspots', wage incentives became available via Jobcentre Plus to employ eligible 18 to 24-year-olds. In most cases the wage incentives element of the Youth Contract are paid after a young person has been in work continuously for 26 weeks.
Following the collection and quality assurance of this data, the first set of Official Statistics on the wage incentive should be available from early 2013.
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