Question follow-through · 50919
Restart Scheme
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of Serco's performance against key performance indicators in the Restart Scheme contract.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 8 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 12 May 2025
- Answer
- 16 May 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
8 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of Serco's performance against key performance indicators in the Restart Scheme contract.
12 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 May 2025
Answer published
Serco’s performance against the contracted Key Performance Indicators has been varied. As part of our established performance management intervention regime, the department has therefore implemented intensified support and heightened monitoring for the tw...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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