Question follow-through · 11339
Restart Scheme: Cost Effectiveness
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness and value for money of the Restart Scheme ahead of its planned end in June 2026.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 18 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 22 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 25 Jun 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
18 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness and value for money of the Restart Scheme ahead of its planned end in June 2026.
22 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
25 Jun 2026
Answer published
By the end of April 2026, around 1.1 million individuals had started on the Restart Scheme. 280,000 participants have subsequently achieved a job outcome. This is against a (minimum) contractual expectation of 240,000 job outcomes. The current number of j...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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