PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Restart Scheme (30 November 2020)

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the number of unemployed people who will receive funding from the Government's Restart programme, announced in the Spending Review 2020.

Asked by:
Alison McGovern (Labour)

The chancellor announced at Spending Review £2.9bn for three years of referrals to Restart.

Restart will provide intensive, tailored employment support to help over 1 million people back towards sustained employment.

The commercial process will start in December, contracts will be awarded in Spring 2021, with go live Summer 2021. Further detail on the scheme will be announced in due course.

Answered by:
Mims Davies (Conservative)
3 December 2020