John Glen – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Work and Pensions

The below Parliamentary question was asked by John Glen on 2015-10-28.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what methodology his Department uses to model the deadweight assumptions used in assessing the performance of the Work Programme.

Priti Patel

The Department’s methodology for calculating the non-intervention level (‘deadweight’) is set out in the National Audit Office’s 2012 report on the Introduction of the Work Programme, in the Detailed Methodology section.

https://www.nao.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/10121701_methodology.pdf

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