While the Department publishes selective statistics about some of its support schemes, such as information about the work and health programme, it does not produce regular data on its schemes to allow Parliamentarians or its partners to scrutinise performance in real time, who instead have to wait for formal evaluation results.40 The Department said that it would work with us and the National Audit Office to develop regular updates about the success of the new employment schemes it has introd...

While the Department publishes selective statistics about some of its support schemes, such as information about the work and health programme, it does not produce regular data on its schemes to allow Parliamentarians or its partners to scrutinise performance in real time, who instead have to wait for formal evaluation results.40 The Department said that it would work with us and the National Audit Office to develop regular updates about the success of the new employment schemes it has introduced, and we discussed how these metrics should be clear about what outcomes the support schemes are achieving, and how they should be easy to understand Type: conclusion | Number: 14 | Response status: not_addressed Government response: 5: PAC Conclusion: The Department is not sufficiently transparent about the impact and take-up of its schemes at a local level. 5: PAC Recommendation: The Department should produce a quarterly statistical publication and regular data updates on measures such as t