PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Employment and Support Allowance (17 July 2014)

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many employment and support allowance claimants aged over 50 have been (a) referred to and (b) secured a sustained job outcome from the Work Programme; and, of those, how many have secured sustained job outcomes.

Asked by:
Sir Stephen Timms (Labour)

The information requested is shown in the table below.

Number of Work Programme Referrals, Job Outcomes and Sustained Job Outcomes for Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) claimants aged over 50, Great Britain: 1 June 2011 - 31 March 2014

	Referrals	Job Outcomes	Sustained Job Outcomes
Total for all ESA Prognosis Customer Groups	70,740	2,660	2,490

Answered by:
Esther McVey (Conservative)
22 July 2014