The National Audit Office (NAO) has published a report on the introduction of the Work Programme. Its key findings include:

The NAO conclude that while DWP has made considerable effort to learn the lessons of previous welfare to work schemes it is too early to judge the success of the Work Programme but that "the speed with which [it] has been introduced has involved the acceptance of risks and curtailing of safeguards that potentially will have a bearing on the Programme's success or failure."