Home / Sources / Select Committees / Work and Pensions Committee / Plan for Jobs and employment support
Index live · Last sync 22 May 2026
Select Committee · Work and Pensions Committee

Plan for Jobs and employment support

Status: Closed Opened: 11 Jul 2022 Closed: 31 Oct 2023 25 recommendations 13 conclusions 1 report

The Committee looked at the effectiveness of Government support to get people into employment, including disadvantaged groups such as those in low-paid jobs and young people. The Committee looked to find out: What is driving increases in economic inactivity - for example amongst people with health conditions and older people? What has been the impact …

Clear

Reports

1 report
Title HC No. Published Items Response
Eighth Report - Plan for Jobs and employment support HC 600 19 Jul 2023 38 Responded

Recommendations & Conclusions

1 item
36 Recommendation Eighth Report - Plan for Jobs and empl… Not Addressed

Publish quarterly performance data for all employment programmes by January 2024 for transparency.

We welcome the recent publication of Restart statistics but there is more work to be done to if the Department is to provide transparent accountability across the range of DWP employment services. DWP lacks transparency around programme performance, making proper evaluation of schemes unfeasible. This makes it difficult to hold …

Government response. The government states it currently publishes quarterly statistics for the Work and Health Programme and 6-monthly for the Restart Scheme. It commits to continue publishing and developing future employment programme publications but does not agree to release results for *all* …
Department for Work and Pensions

Oral evidence sessions

8 sessions
Date Witnesses
3 May 2023 Guy Opperman MP · Department for Work and Pensions, Katie Farrington · Department for Work and Pensions, Sophie Dean · Department for Work and Pensions, Tom Pursglove MP · Home Office View ↗
19 Apr 2023 Alex Till · National Enterprise Network, David Hale · Federation of Small Businesses, Jonny Briggs · Aviva, Matt Dooley · Momentic Limited View ↗
15 Mar 2023 Dr Katy Jones · Manchester Metropolitan University, Professor Dan Finn · University of Portsmouth View ↗
8 Feb 2023 Elizabeth Taylor · The Employment Related Services Association (ERSA), Fiona Monahan · Ingeus, Graham Parry · Groundwork, Liz Sewell · Belina Grow, Rhodri Thomas · Reed in Partnership, Richard Clifton · Shaw Trust, Rosie Ginday · Miss Macaroon View ↗
25 Jan 2023 Councillor Kieron Williams · Central London Forward, Councillor Toby Savage · Local Government Association, Dr Shriti Pattani · Society of Occupational Medicine, Graham Whitham · Greater Manchester Poverty Action, Luke Price · The Centre for Ageing Better, Peter Murphy · Wise Age, Professor Kevin Bampton · British Occupational Hygiene Society View ↗
16 Nov 2022 Barry Fletcher · Career Connect, Billy Harding · Centrepoint, Dr Jenny Ceolta-Smith · Long Covid Support and Long Covid Work, James Taylor · Scope, Jane Hunt · Association of Disabled Professionals, Professor Kim Hoque · Disability@Work, Richard Rigby · The Prince’s Trust View ↗
26 Oct 2022 Ben Harrison · The Work Foundation, Dr Eleanor Carter · Government Outcomes Lab, Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford, Jonathan Cribb · Institute for Fiscal Studies, Louise Murphy · Resolution Foundation, Stephen Evans · Learning and Work Institute, Tony Wilson · Institute for Employment Studies View ↗
5 Jan 2022 Hannah Slaughter · Resolution Foundation, Richard Hughes · Office for Budget Responsibility, Sam Avanzo Windett · Learning and Work Institute, Tony Wilson · Institute for Employment Studies View ↗

Correspondence

3 letters
DateDirectionTitle
18 Oct 2023 — Correspondence with the Economic Secretary to the Treasury relating to income p…
7 Jun 2023 — Correspondence with the Minister for Employment relating to Plan for Jobs and e…
29 Mar 2023 — Correspondence with the Minister for Employment and the Minister for Disabled P…