Laura Kuenssberg BBC Chief political correspondent reported on NewsNight that:
The government’s new “work programme” will actually help fewer people than the existing schemes that ministers are scrapping, the BBC has learned.
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Officials have said they expect 605,000 people to go through the Work Programme scheme in 2011-12 and 565,000 in 2012-13.
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About 850,000 people went through the last government’s schemes in 2009-10 which are now being scrapped.
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