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Written question asked by Stephen Timms (Labour) on Tuesday, 13 December 2011, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 19 December 2011. It was answered by Lord Grayling (Conservative) on Monday, 19 December 2011 on behalf of the Department for Work and Pensions.


Work Programme

Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people in each category of jobseeker he expects to be referred to the Work programme in each month of 2012.
Answer

An updated set of volumes based on the recent OBR forecasts will be issued to providers before Christmas.Following are the previous set of indicative volumes sent to providers for claimant starts by payment group. The estimates for 2011-12 are for the 10 month period from when the Work programme went live in June 2011, to March 2012.Volume estimates have been formulated for each year only.

2011-12 2012-13
JSA 18-24 81,000 69,000
JSA 25+ 294,000 241,000
JSA Early Access 40,000 42,000
JSA Ex-IB 23,000 36,000
ESA Volunteer 65,000 69,000
ESA Flow 56,000 66,000
ESA Ex-IB 53,000 74,000
IB/IS (England only) 16,000 19,000
Total 628,000 616,000

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
87045; 537 c918W
Session
2010-12
Subjects
Work programme
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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