Work and Health Programme statistics release strategy
How DWP manages the release of Work and Health Programme statistics.
Updates to this page
- From:
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Published:
- 7 August 2018
- Last updated:
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28 May 2026
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Updated the Work and Health Programme statistics release strategy due to the publication of the Work and Health Programme statistics to February 2026.
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Updated information under heading 'Publication frequency.' It now describes that the Work and Health Programme (WHP) is closed to new referrals and will be published less frequently after the release on 27 November. The previous first paragraph after the heading 'Data and statistics' has been removed. The wording of the second paragraph under the heading 'Consultation' has been changed. The previous paragraph 3 has been removed from under the heading 'Future developments'
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Revised the release strategy document — the section on 'Future developments' has been updated. The latest release of Work and Health Programme statistics has been published today (28 August 2025).
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Revised the release strategy document — the section on 'Future developments' has been updated. The latest release of Work and Health Programme statistics has been published today (29 May 2025).
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Revised the release strategy document — the section on 'Future developments' has been updated. The latest release of Work and Health Programme statistics has been published today (27 February 2025).
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Revised the release strategy document — the section on 'Future developments' has been updated. The latest release of Work and Health Programme statistics has been published today (28 November 2024).
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Revised the release strategy document — the sections on 'Data and statistics' and 'Future developments' have been updated. The latest release of Work and Health Programme statistics has been published today (29 August 2024).
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Revised the release strategy — now includes information on Work and Health Programme Pioneer statistics. The latest release of Work and Health Programme statistics has been published today (30 May 2024).
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Revised the release strategy — the latest release of Work and Health Programme statistics has been published today, 29 February 2024.
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Revised the release strategy — the section on future developments to the statistics has been updated. The latest release of Work and Health Programme statistics (with data to August 2023) has been published today, 30 November 2023.
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Revised the release strategy to support the latest release of Work and Health Programme statistics (data to May 2023), also published today 31 August 2021. The "data and statistics" section has been updated to show that the statistics consist of 6 main measures, and that the statistics are now classed as ‘Official Statistics’.
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Added Stat-Xplore to the list of publication formats. The latest Work and Health Programme statistics have been published today, 25 August 2022.
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Updated the information about the 5 main measures in the Work and Health Programme (WHP) statistics. The next release of WHP statistics will be published on 25 February 2020.
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Revised release strategy - updated the information about what is currently included in the official statistics, and what is planned to be included from August 2020.
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Revised to support the latest release of Work and Health Programme statistics (data to November 2019), also published today 27 February 2020.
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Updated as a result of the consultation on the release of Work and Health Programme statistics.
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Amended release strategy to clarify that we aim to publish Work and Health Programme statistics on the same day as the wider Labour Market Statistics, dependent on data source availability.
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First published.
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Applies to England and Wales
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This document explains how the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) manages the release of Work and Health Programme statistics.