DWP Employment Support

Public Accounts Committee Closed Inquiry
Opened: 21 May 2021 Closed: 16 Nov 2021 Parliament page
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a major impact on the labour market, and unemployment in the UK is expected to increase significantly. The Department for Work & Pensions (DWP) provides a range of welfare benefits and support for unemployed people through Jobcentres and through more intensive programmes, such as the … Read more
11 Recommendations
11 Conclusions
1 Report
1 Oral session
2 Letters
1 Event
Activity timeline 5 events
8 Nov
2021
Report published
25 Oct
2021
Correspondence
8 Sep
2021
Report published
13 Jul
2021
Correspondence
17 Jun
2021
Oral evidence
Oral evidence sessions 1 session
17 Jun 2021
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DWP Employment Support
Jonathan Mills · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero Margarita Morrison · Department for Work & Pensions Peter Schofield · Department for Work and Pensions
Title HC No. Published Items Response
Fifteenth Report - DWP Employment support HC 177 8 Sep 2021 22 Responded
Recommendations & Conclusions
2 results
Clear
5 Recommendation Not Addressed
Fifteenth Report - DWP Employment …
The Department is not sufficiently transparent about the impact and take-up of its schemes at...
The Department is not sufficiently transparent about the impact and take-up of its schemes at a local level. We recognise that good-quality evaluations can be challenging to deliver, and that measuring the impact of a programme can take years. We … Read more
Government Response
The government's response is completely unrelated to the recommendation, discussing BBC audience figures and online services instead of DWP statistical publications.
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12 Conclusion Not Addressed
Fifteenth Report - DWP Employment …
The Department’s current flagship programmes are aimed at youth unemployment, and the long term unemployed.
The Department’s current flagship programmes are aimed at youth unemployment, and the long term unemployed. There are relatively few schemes targeted at people from an ethnic minority background.29 The Department did tell us about its 20 challenge areas, which are … Read more
Government Response
The government's response did not address the committee's conclusion about the lack of targeted employment schemes for ethnic minority backgrounds or the specific actions in the 20 challenge areas, instead providing a response related to general diversity data collection.
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Government Response AI assessment · 22 of 11 classified
Accepted 13
Accepted in Part 2
Acknowledged 3
Deferred 1
Not Addressed 2
Rejected 1
Total 11 recs + 11 conclusions
Correspondence 2 letters
25 Oct 2021 Correspondence from Peter Schofield CB, Permanent Secretary, Department for Work and Pensions, re TM15 – DWP Employment Support – Recommendation 2, dated 29 September 2021
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13 Jul 2021 Correspondence from Peter Willan, Chair, Richmond Heathrow Campaign, re Employment Support Follow up, dated 5 July 2021
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