Andrew Percy – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Work and Pensions

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Andrew Percy on 2014-03-11.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of people in Brigg and Goole constituency who have begun an apprenticeship through support provided on the work programme.

Esther McVey

The data requested is not available. Participants on the Work Programme are some of the hardest people to help into work, what we do know from the latest industry published statistics is that nationally from June 2011 to December 2013, 498,000 people have been helped into work by the Work Programme.