To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions whether he has made an assessment of the effectiveness of the voluntary drug rehabilitation scheme for benefit claimants; and if he will make a statement. (268412)

Progress2work, the Department’s voluntary employment programme for recovering drug users was reviewed in 2008 by the Policy Studies Institute. The report ‘Progress2work and Progress2work linkup: an exploratory study to assess evaluation possibilities’, DWP research report 464, has been placed in the Library and is available on the DWP website:

www.dwp.gov.uk/asd/asd5/rports2007-2008/rrep464.pdf