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Employment Schemes: Finance

Question for Department for Work and Pensions

UIN 202522, tabled on 13 October 2023

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the £3.5 billion package of measures to increase employment announced in the 2023 Spring Statement, on which measures his Department intends to spend this additional funding in each financial year.

Answered on

18 October 2023

The Spring Statement set out a significant, wide-ranging package of departmental measures that represent an investment of £3.5bn over 5 years to boost workforce participation.

Details of the funded measures and profile were included in the 2023 Spring Budget publication.

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