Question follow-through · 111750
Employment Schemes
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment his Department has made of the value of expanding the number of JobsPlus sites across the UK, following the ten current pilot sites across England.
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 9 Feb 2026
- Target answer date
- 11 Feb 2026
- Answer
- 13 Feb 2026 · 4 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
9 Feb 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment his Department has made of the value of expanding the number of JobsPlus sites across the UK, following the ten current pilot sites across England.
11 Feb 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
13 Feb 2026
Answer published
Jobs Plus is a community-based model with strong potential to tackle inactivity and unemployment. The department is testing the model in ten social housing communities across England to generate evidence on place-based support. The pilots will be evaluate...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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