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Written question asked by Baroness May of Maidenhead (Conservative) on Thursday, 23 April 2009, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 27 April 2009. It was answered by Lord Knight of Weymouth (Labour) on Monday, 15 June 2009 on behalf of the Department for Work and Pensions.


Departmental Responsibilities

Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (1) how many programmes centres her Department had in each of the last 10 years for which information is available;
Answer

The information requested is not available in full; the following table shows what is available.

Number of programme centres
2008-09 78
2007-08 118
2006-07 118

There have been no capacity issues reported by a programme centre in the last six months.Any short-term capacity issues raised by programme centres are immediately dealt with by Contract Managers and Jobcentre Plus locally.


Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
494 c43W; 271625
Session
2008-09
Subjects
Jobcentres
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
View this Written question on www.publications.parliament.uk