While the Department publishes selective statistics about some of its support schemes, such as information about the work and health programme, it does not produce regular data on its schemes to allow Parliamentarians or its partners to scrutinise performance in real time, who instead have to wait for formal evaluation results.40 The Department said that it would work with us and the National Audit Office to develop regular updates about the success of the new employment schemes it has introduced, and we discussed how these metrics should be clear about what outcomes the support schemes are achieving, and how they should be easy to understand and interpret at a local level.41 37 Q 61; C&AG’s Report, pg 18 38 Q 61 39 Letter from the Permanent Secretary to the Chair, 5 July 2021 40 Department for Work and Pensions, Work and Health Programme statistics to February 2021, 27 May 2021, available at: Work and Health Programme statistics to February 2021 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) 41 Qq 61–66 14 DWP Employment support 2 Ensuring people get the support they need Getting claimants the right support