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registered interest
date	15/05/2024
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Employment Schemes: Mental Illness
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people were on the Individual Placement and Support programme on 15 May 2024.
tabling member constituency	Bermondsey and Old Southwark
tabling member printed	Neil Coyle
uin	26477
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/05/2024 answer text <p>We have interpreted your question as referring to the Individual Placement and Support in Primary Care (IPSPC) initiative and Work and Health Programme (WHP) Pioneer, both of which form part of the first phase of Universal Support.</p><p>We explained in our press release that we expect to help 25,000 people by September 2024. Progress will be reported in the WHP official statistics publication on GOV.UK. Information relating to IPSPC is not currently available; however, the Secretary of State has committed to the publication of data for the IPSPC initiative as part of the first phase of Universal Support. This will be pre-announced prior to publication.</p><p>The next release of <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/work-and-health-programme-statistics" target="_blank">published statistics</a> for the WHP is planned for 30 May 2024. This release will include statistics on starts, referrals and individual referrals to WHP Pioneer. Statistics on job outcomes and first earnings from employment will be released in later publications.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies grouped question UIN 26475 26476 question first answered 20/05/2024 14:58:32 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4368 label Biography information for Neil Coyle

1568286

registered interest
date	18/01/2023
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Employment Schemes: Mental Illness
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to his Department's Press release entitled £122 million employment boost for people receiving mental health support, published on 10 October 2022, what assessment his Department has made of the effect of £122 million funding on helping people (a) find and (b) into work.
tabling member constituency	Wirral South
tabling member printed	Alison McGovern
uin	126627
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2023 answer text <p>The £122m funding will enable the expansion of Employment Advisers in NHS Talking Therapies from the current 40% of England to the whole of England by Summer 2024. This joint programme by DWP, DHSC, and NHS England will see the recruitment of around an additional 700 employment advisers to support people with common mental health conditions to improve their mental health, whilst also helping them stay in, or find, work.</p><p> </p><p>As the Employment Advisers programme is rolled out across England, we will be evaluating the impact on health and employment.</p><p> </p><p>Evaluation of the trial of the service (across 40% of England) showed that Employment Advisers had a positive impact on mental health across all Talking Therapy client groups. Those who were out of work at entry to the service were 6 percentage points more likely to be in work at the end of treatment, compared to a matched comparison group which received IAPT support only.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 23/01/2023 15:52:14 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4083 label Biography information for Alison McGovern

519391

registered interest
date	18/05/2016
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Employment Schemes: Mental Illness
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Answer of 13 April 2016 to Question 32812, whether the figures provided for sums to be spent annually and in total are additional to each other; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	37473
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/05/2016 answer text <p>The 2015 Spending Review agreed funding rising to £130m per year for the Work and Health Programme, focussing support for people with a disability or health condition and the long term unemployed (over 24 months). This figure is separate and in addition to the Prime Minister’s announced plans to provide further support and funding for people with mental health issues to retain or regain employment.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 27/05/2016 13:52:27 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

506802

registered interest
date	08/04/2016
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Employment Schemes: Mental Illness
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 29 January 2016 to Question 23980, on employment plans: mental illness, whether he plans to introduce new measures of support for people with mental health problems before the end of the three year period of voluntary trials.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	32812
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/04/2016 answer text <p>The 2015 Spending Review announced at least £130 million a year in steady state funding on the new Work and Health Programme, which we plan to launch in 2017. With this new programme we plan to restructure our current provision to focus on providing the best possible support for claimants with health conditions or disabilities, including those with mental health conditions.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, the Prime Minister has already announced plans to significantly improve the support that helps people with mental ill health retain or regain employment:</p><p> </p><ul><li>Over £300 million will be provided to double access to talking therapies for people suffering from conditions like anxiety or depression.</li></ul><p> </p><ul><li>£50 million will be spent to double the reach of Individual Placement and Support Programmes, which find work for people with mental illness.</li></ul><p> </p><ul><li>over £50 million is being invested to more than double the number of IAPT (Improving Access to Psychological Therapies) employment advisors, so that they are linked in to every talking therapy service in the country.</li></ul><p> </p><ul><li>29,000 more people with mental health conditions will be helped to find or stay in work thanks to increased access to these therapies.</li></ul> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 13/04/2016 15:56:47 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

450672

registered interest
date	04/02/2016
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Employment Schemes: Mental Illness
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent steps his Department has taken to provide further support for people with mental health problems in returning to work.
tabling member constituency	East Antrim
tabling member printed	Sammy Wilson
uin	25942
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2016 answer text <p>The Department for Work and Pensions lead on support for people with mental health problems in getting back to work. Over the next three years, we are investing over £40 million to develop the evidence base on what works in supporting those with mental health conditions get back to work/return to work through a series of trials</p><p> </p><p>Further support is available through the Access to Work Mental Health Support Service. Last year, Access to Work supported 1630 people who declared a Mental Health condition as their Primary Medical Condition – a 15% increase on 2013/14 and a record number for the programme</p><p> </p><p>Our wider employment programmes provide those with mental health conditions with the appropriate support to find work. Work Choice is an employment programme is specifically for those with a disability or health condition. Up to September 2015, of the 14,290 starters who declared either a Severe or Mild to Moderate Mental Health condition as their Primary Disability, 6,650 (over 46%) have achieved a job outcome.</p><p> </p><p><strong>(BIS)</strong> Support is not restricted to employees, as the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills is evaluating the impact of short, part-time adult education courses on people with mild to moderate mental health problems.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 11/02/2016 13:54:52 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	1593 label Biography information for Sammy Wilson