PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Restart Scheme (10 May 2022)

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people have (a) started and (b) remain in the Restart Scheme by (i) region, (ii) constituency, (iii) age, (iv) gender, (v) ethnicity, (vi) disability and (vii) highest level of education.

Asked by:
Alison McGovern (Labour)

The Restart Scheme began in July 2021, providing up to 12 months of support to help people who have been unemployed for more than nine months, into sustained employment.

The tables below show the following data on the Restart Scheme for up to and including 30 April 2022:

• Starts - the number of individuals with a start date on provision
• Leavers - the number of individuals with both a start date and an end date recorded on provision (reasons for leaving the Restart Scheme include a participant starting work, moving off Universal Credit or moving out of the Universal Credit Intensive Work Search regime)
• Caseload - the number of individuals with a start date recorded but without an end date recorded

Data is not currently available by ethnicity, disability, and highest education level or by constituency.

Table 1 – Starts, leavers, and caseload by Contract Package Area (CPA)

CPA	Starts	Leavers	Caseload
1a West Central	20,825	1,425	19,400
1b East Central	18,345	1,605	16,740
2a North East and Humberside	16,500	1,405	15,095
2b South and West Yorkshire, Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire	24,275	2,095	22,180
3a North West	15,070	600	14,470
3b Greater Manchester	14,650	770	13,875
4a South West	14,630	880	13,755
4b South Central	14,665	985	13,675
5a Central and West London	30,350	1,585	28,765
5b South and East London	19,635	1,540	18,095
5c Home Counties	28,265	2,505	25,760
6 Wales	9,575	785	8,790
National	226,785	16,180	210,605

Table 2 – Starts, leavers, and caseload by Sex

Sex	Starts	Leavers	Caseload
Female	92,530	5,965	86,570
Male	134,235	10,210	124,020
Unknown	20	5	15
Total	226,785	16,180	210,605

Table 3 – Starts, leavers, and caseload by Age

Age	Starts	Leavers	Caseload
18 to 24	12,780	665	12,115
25 to 49	148,080	10,840	137,245
Over 49	65,485	4,665	60,820
Unknown	445	15	430
Total	226,785	16,180	210,605

Data Source: Provider Referrals and Payment System (PRaP) and DWP administrative datasets.

A breakdown of the CPAs can be found in the following link.

Restart Scheme: Contract Package Areas - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

All values rounded to nearest 5 - total numbers may not sum perfectly due to rounding.

The management information above has not been subjected to the usual standard of quality assurance associated with Official Statistics but is provided in the interests of transparency.

There are some unknown values (less than 1%) recorded in the system for both gender and age. Some are recorded as such while others are due to a mismatch between Provider Referrals, Payment System, and DWP administrative datasets.

The numbers of leavers and caseload depends on accurate recording of the end date and so there maybe inaccuracy in these numbers.

Answered by:
Mims Davies (Conservative)
20 May 2022