Job Retention and Rehabilitation Pilots (Hansard, 26 March 2003)

HC Deb 26 March 2003 vol 402 cc293-4W 293W

§ Mr. Cousins
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how much has been spent so far on the job retention and rehabilitation pilots; if he will list the
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been able to extract the figures from HSE's annual reports apart from those areas marked as not available in the table.
The available information is in the following table.
pilots and their (a) costs and (b) locations; and how many pilots, in which locations, are planned for 2003–04. [104719]

§ Mr. Nicholas Brown
The Job Retention and Rehabilitation Pilot will run from April 2003 for up to two years. It will test the effectiveness of different intervention strategies in helping people return to work, and will be delivered in six sites: Birmingham, Greater Glasgow, Sheffield, Tyneside, Teesside and west Kent. The total cost of the pilot is anticipated to be £17.75 million of which £1,580,197 has been spent to date.