Fifteenth Report - DWP Employment support

Select Committee
Public Accounts Committee HC 177 8 September 2021
Report Status Government responded
Conclusions & Recommendations 22 items (11 recs)
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Government Response (AI assessment · 22 of 22 classified)
Accepted 13
Accepted in Part 2
Acknowledged 3
Deferred 1
Not Addressed 2
Rejected 1
Government response
Treasury minutes: Government response to the Committee of Public Accounts on the Fifteenth report from Session 2021-22 · published 8 Nov 2021
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Recommendations & Conclusions

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5 Recommendation Not Addressed
The Department is not sufficiently transparent about the impact and take-up of its schemes at...
Recommendation
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 Summary
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
The Department’s current flagship programmes are aimed at youth unemployment, and the long term unemployed.
Conclusion
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 Summary
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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