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1698075

	registered interest
	date	22/03/2024
	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: Disability
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the (a) planned spending is for and (b) expected number of beneficiaries are of the Intensive Personalised Employment Support programme in each of the next five years.
	tabling member constituency	Wirral South
	tabling member printed	Alison McGovern
	uin	20043
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/04/2024 answer text <p>The Intensive Personalised Employment Support (IPES) programme is due to end on 21 September 2025. The forecasted spending for the 2024/2025 tax year and the beginning of the 2025/2026 tax year until the programme ends is shown in the table below.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>FORECAST 2024/2025</strong> <strong> </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>FORECAST 2025/2026 </strong> <strong>(up to 21 Sept 2025)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>£4.0m</p></td><td><p>£0.5m</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>We do not produce a formal forecast of the number of participants for the IPES programme per year. The last intake of participants to the programme was December 2023. As of 29 February 2024, the total number of participants was 3,820. This number will decline as participants complete the programme, until September 2025 when the programme is due to end.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Please Note</strong></p><p> </p><ul><li>The figures in the table have been rounded to the nearest million.</li><li>The data recorded in the IPES dataset does not meet the standards required to be included in the Official Statistics. <strong>Please treat the total number of participant value as a guide figure rather than an actual figure.</strong></li></ul> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 03/04/2024 12:28:10 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
	tabling member	4083 label Biography information for Alison McGovern

1671541

	registered interest
	date	20/11/2023
	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: Disability
	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 written ministerial statement by the Minister for Disabled People, Health and Work of 20 November 2023, HCWS44, how many people have received support from the Enhanced Support Service.
	tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
	tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
	uin	2703
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2023 answer text <p>Evaluation of the Enhanced Support Service is currently in progress to analyse the number of customers supported and to determine its impact and next steps.</p><p>The Enhanced Support Service (ESS) has not been designed specifically to help people in to work, instead it provides personalised support for people who find the benefits system difficult to navigate, such as those who do not have friends or family to support them. ESS helps these individuals to access the right support, at the right time, and lead independent and fulfilling lives.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove grouped question UIN 2705 question first answered 28/11/2023 15:42:26 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
	tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

1671543

	registered interest
	date	20/11/2023
	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: Disability
	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 written ministerial statement by the Minister for Disabled People, Health and Work of 20 November 2023, HCWS44, how many people who have received support from the Enhanced Support Service are in employment as of 20 November 2023.
	tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
	tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
	uin	2705
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2023 answer text <p>Evaluation of the Enhanced Support Service is currently in progress to analyse the number of customers supported and to determine its impact and next steps.</p><p>The Enhanced Support Service (ESS) has not been designed specifically to help people in to work, instead it provides personalised support for people who find the benefits system difficult to navigate, such as those who do not have friends or family to support them. ESS helps these individuals to access the right support, at the right time, and lead independent and fulfilling lives.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove grouped question UIN 2703 question first answered 28/11/2023 15:42:26 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
	tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

1671545

	registered interest
	date	20/11/2023
	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: Disability
	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 have received Intensive Personalised Employment Support, by local authority area, in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Wirral South
	tabling member printed	Alison McGovern
	uin	2588
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/11/2023 answer text <p>Statistics on Intensive Personalised Employment Support are planned for future publication and will be formally released, adhering to the Official Statistics guidance. Although MI is available internally, it is important that it remains restricted and is not shared externally prior to release of the Official Statistics.</p><p> </p><p>The publication of official information is a properly planned and managed process, to ensure that the data is accurate once placed into the public domain. It is in the public interest to ensure that the information is available to all members of the public at the same time, and premature publication could undermine this principle.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 22/11/2023 15:44:16 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
	tabling member	4083 label Biography information for Alison McGovern

1671546

	registered interest
	date	20/11/2023
	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: Disability
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the overall annual cost of the Intensive Personalised Employment Support programme is.
	tabling member constituency	Wirral South
	tabling member printed	Alison McGovern
	uin	2589
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2023 answer text <p>Contracted Employment is provided from 2017/18 to 2022/23:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>2017/18</strong> <strong>Actual</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2018/19</strong> <strong>Actual</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2019/20</strong> <strong>Actual</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2020/21</strong> <strong>Actual</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2021/22</strong> <strong>Actual</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2022/23</strong> <strong>Actual</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>GRAND TOTAL</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p>£200,000</p></td><td><p>£1,000,000</p></td><td><p>£3,919,670</p></td><td><p>£5,722,876</p></td><td><p>£9,226,277</p></td><td><p>£9,702,598</p></td><td><p>£29,771,421</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>The total includes estimated non-recurrent set up costs of approximately £3m.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 28/11/2023 17:48:00 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
	tabling member	4083 label Biography information for Alison McGovern

1671547

	registered interest
	date	20/11/2023
	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: Disability
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department has (a) commissioned and (b) undertaken an assessment of the effectiveness of the Intensive Personalised Employment Support programme.
	tabling member constituency	Wirral South
	tabling member printed	Alison McGovern
	uin	2590
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2023 answer text <p>An evaluation of the Intensive Personalised Employment Support programme was commissioned in 2019, and the contract awarded to Ipsos Mori. Work is currently underway. Details of the award may be found here: <a href="https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/notice/f4101c02-49a5-421f-863f-8c7d4aab7699?origin=SearchResults&amp;p=1" target="_blank">Intensive Personalised Employment Support (IPES) Programme Research and Evaluation - Contracts Finder</a>.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 27/11/2023 17:30:29 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
	tabling member	4083 label Biography information for Alison McGovern

1652417

	registered interest
	date	12/07/2023
	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: Disability
	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 11 July 2023 to Question 192317 on Employment Schemes: Disability, if he will publish further details on the expected timeline for returning the number of Disability Employment Advisors to the Department's core demand level.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester South
	tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
	uin	193641
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2023 answer text <p>The department is actively planning to restore the number of “Disability Employment Advisors (DEA)” to our core demand level, through recruiting a significant number of people into EO graded roles; this recruitment exercise is progressing well with 1900 additional EOs expected to join by September 30th and a forecast of 1600 for the remainder of the calendar year. The increased level of recruitment will incrementally improve the EO shortfall in all areas, including “Disability Employment Advisors (DEA)”.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 17/07/2023 16:06:09 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
	tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1650011

	registered interest
	date	04/07/2023
	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: Disability
	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 12 June 2023 to Question 187983 on Employment Schemes: Disability, for what reason the number of full-time equivalent disability employment advisers employed by his Department was lower in June 2023 than in June 2022.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester South
	tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
	uin	192317
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2023 answer text <p>We are planning to restore the number of “Disability Employment Advisors” to our core demand level, by recruiting a significant number of people into EO graded roles.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 11/07/2023 08:33:36 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
	tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1642719

	registered interest
	date	07/06/2023
	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: Disability
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Disability Employment Advisors were employed by his Department as of 1 June in each year since 2018 in (a) Enfield North constituency, (b) the London Borough of Enfield and (c) London.
	tabling member constituency	Enfield North
	tabling member printed	Feryal Clark
	uin	188406
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/06/2023 answer text <p>Data at constituency and borough level is not available. Relevant data for London Region is shown in the table below.</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Work Coach - Full Time Staff Equivalent</p></td><td><p>Disability Employment Adviser (DEA) - Full Time Staff Equivalent</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018</p></td><td><p>3210</p></td><td><p>69</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019</p></td><td><p>3050</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020</p></td><td><p>2040</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021</p></td><td><p>4980</p></td><td><p>120</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2022</p></td><td><p>3800</p></td><td><p>170</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2023</p></td><td><p>2770</p></td><td><p>130</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: DWP’s internal Activity Based Model (ABM)</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Notes:</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="4"><p><ul><li>Data is correct as of 1 June 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023.</li><li>Data for Work Coaches and Disability Employment Advisers (DEAs) do not include Work Coach Team Leaders. Number of DEAs was impacted during the Covid Pandemic.</li><li>Figures were derived from the Department’s Activity Based Model (ABM), which provides Full Time Equivalent (FTE) figures based on point in time estimate by Line Managers. They cover only FTE of staff with paid employment. WCs have been rounded to the nearest 10.</li><li>The number of Work Coaches is unpublished management information, collected and intended for internal department use and has not been quality assured to National Statistics or Official Statistics standard. As the Department holds the information, we have released it.</li></ul></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="4"><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman grouped question UIN 188405 question first answered 14/06/2023 10:39:21 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
	tabling member	4822 label Biography information for Feryal Clark

1642176

	registered interest
	date	06/06/2023
	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: Disability
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that disabled jobseekers can access specialist support while looking for work.
	tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
	tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
	uin	187893
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2023 answer text <p>A range of Government initiatives are supporting disabled people and people with health conditions to start, stay, and succeed in work. These include:</p><p> </p><ul><li>Increasing Work Coach support in Jobcentres for people with health conditions receiving Universal Credit or Employment and Support Allowance;</li><li>Disability Employment Advisers in Jobcentres offering advice and expertise on how to help disabled people and people with health conditions into work;</li><li>The Work and Health Programme and Intensive Personalised Employment Support, providing tailored and personalised support for participants;</li><li>Access to Work grants helping towards extra costs of working beyond standard reasonable adjustments;</li><li>Disability Confident, encouraging employers to think differently about disability and health, and to take positive action to address the issues disabled employees face in the workplace;</li><li>An online information and advice service called “Support with Employee Health and Disability”, providing better integrated and tailored guidance on supporting health and disability in the workplace;</li><li>Increasing access to occupational health, including the testing of financial incentives for small and medium-sized enterprises and the self-employed; and</li><li>Work in partnership between the DWP and health systems, including Employment Advice in NHS Talking Therapies, which combines psychological treatment and employment support for people with mental health conditions.</li></ul><p> </p><p>To tackle rising economic inactivity due to long-term sickness, we announced a wide-reaching package at the Spring Budget to support disabled people and people with health conditions to work. New investment will provide faster access to joined-up work and health support, including for mental health and musculoskeletal conditions, the two leading causes of economic inactivity due to long-term sickness.</p><p> </p><p>Jobcentre staff also have access to information on services and support available in their local area and will signpost claimants to national and local organisations who can provide additional specialist support.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 12/06/2023 10:57:28 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
	tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman