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DWP response to the National Audit Office report on the Work Programme

DWP response to the National Audit Office (NAO) report on the Work Programme.

From:
Department for Work and Pensions
Published
2 July 2014
This was published under the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

皇冠体育app Work Programme is helping more people than any previous employment programme and has already helped half a million people start a job and 300,000 into lasting work.

皇冠体育app NAO says that we鈥檝e already saved more than 拢40 million over and above any previous employment programme, and that we鈥檒l save 拢450 million on benefits compared with any scheme that has gone before.

Even starting in the recession, the Work Programme performed as well as previous schemes, and with performance improving rapidly it鈥檚 on track to deliver significantly more jobs than previous schemes.

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Published 2 July 2014