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Departmental Responsibilities

Volume 494: debated on Monday 15 June 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (1) how many programmes centres her Department had in each of the last 10 years for which information is available; (271625)

(2) how many programme centres have reported capacity problems to her Department in the last six months.

The information requested is not available in full; the following table shows what is available.

Number of programme centres

2008-09

78

2007-08

118

2006-07

118

There have been no capacity issues reported by a programme centre in the last six months.

Any short-term capacity issues raised by programme centres are immediately dealt with by Contract Managers and Jobcentre Plus locally.