Business Plan transparency measures
The Government is committed to setting new standards for transparency so the public can more easily see how and where taxpayers’ money is being spent and hold politicians, Government Departments and public bodies to account.
The Prime Minister has asked all Government Departments to publish a wide range of information about how it meets and measures its objectives and uses its resources to better deliver value for money and reduce the deficit.
The Department for Work and Pensions publishes a range of data and supports greater transparency of public information. From October 2012 the Department will publish data on its Business Plan indicators on this page as soon as new data become available. The indicators will be reported on formally in the Department’s Annual Report and Accounts.
Business Plan indicator data before October 2012 is published in the Quarterly Data Summary.
Input indicator measures
Impact indicator measures
- Rates of people moving from key out of work benefits
- Number of people on key out of work benefits
- Proportion of children living in workless households
- Proportion of young people not in full time education who are not in employment
- Proportion of the lowest earning 25-30 year olds that experience wage progression ten years later
- Rate of disability poverty
- Gap between the employment rates for disabled people and the overall population
- Fraud and error in the benefit system as a percentage of benefit expenditure
- Rate of pensioner poverty
- Number of employees in a pension scheme sponsored by their employer
- Average age people stop working
- Public opinion of DWP service levels
Other data measures
Data which will help people to judge the progress of structural reforms
- Proportion of customers who have been on the Work Programme and for whom providers have achieved a job outcome payment, how much those outcomes have cost Government on average, and how much benefit savings the programme has generated
- Number of Incapacity Benefit (IB) recipients reassessed and those moving from IB to Employment Support Allowance (ESA) nationally
- Number of disabled people taking up Right to Control
- Proportion of new claims to Jobseeker's Allowance applications submitted
- The proportion of State Pension claims completed online – for information
- The proportion of households that are workless
Data which will help people make informed choices
- Incomes and circumstances of UK private households, by gender, age, marital status, ethnicity, disability, region and housing tenure
- Poverty rates, the income distribution, by customer group, by gender, age, marital status, ethnicity, disability and qualifications, regions and housing tenure, and income equality
- Indicators of progress towards disability equality
- Labour market data on employment, unemployment (including long term unemployment), inactivity and workless households broken down by relevant characteristics (30KB)
Other key business plan data
- DWP research
- DWP statistics
- DWP Tabulation Tool allows users to create their own detailed tables using the National Database that underpins DWP benefit caseload and client statistics
- Neighbourhood statistics
- DWP publications and research
- Health and Safety statistics
