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Social Security Benefits: Greater Manchester

Volume 502: debated on Wednesday 9 December 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (1) what the budget is for the Work for Your Benefits pilots in (a) Manchester and (b) Norfolk; (302401)

(2) what the timetable is for the Work for Your Benefits pilots in (a) Manchester and (b) Norfolk; and what evaluation process will take place during and after the pilots.

There are two pilot areas, both of which cover multiple Jobcentre Plus Districts. The overall budget for the Work for Your Benefit programme is as follows:

(a) Greater Manchester Central and Greater Manchester East and West: £9.34 million

(b) Cambridgeshire and Suffolk; and Norfolk: £5.66 million

Both Work for Your Benefit pilots will start delivery in November 2010 and will run for two years. There will be a full and independent evaluation of the pilots which will begin in 2010. Findings will be available throughout the lifetime of the pilots with early results available from autumn 2011. A final report will be published in 2013-14.