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Jobcentres: Staff

Question for Department for Work and Pensions

UIN 192318, tabled on 4 July 2023

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 12 June 2023 to Question 187982 on Jobcentres: Staff, for what reason the number of full-time equivalent work coaches employed by his Department was lower in June 2023 than in June 2022.

Answered on

10 July 2023

During the Pandemic, as a department we looked to recruit a number of temporary Work Coaches to help us maintain an unprecedented increase in caseload.

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