• Fewer than four out of 100 unemployed people  seen by the firm have secured jobs lasting more than 13 weeks
• Its chairman Emma Harrison paid  herself an £8.6 million dividend in 2011 and was forced to quit earlier this  year
• Margaret Hodge, the chair of the public  accounts committee, said the figures were ‘abysmal’

Scandal-plagued welfare-to-work provider, A4E  has managed to get just 3.5 per cent of its job-seekers into long-term  roles.

Fewer than four out of 100 unemployed people  who have gone through the firm have secured jobs that last more than 13  weeks.

Almost 115,000 jobseekers were referred to  A4e in the ten months to May 2012 under the government’s work  programme.

Of those, just 4,020 secured jobs that lasted  more than three months, according to a Channel 4 News investigation.

The company has already been hit by damaging  allegations of fraud.

Its chairman, Emma Harrison, who paid  herself an £8.6 million dividend in 2011 despite A4e’s dreadful record, was  forced to quit earlier this year.

The figures show that A4e – the second  biggest provider of the work programme – is failing to meet its targets in the  first year.

It has to get 5.5 per cent of its jobseekers  into sustainable roles every year to keep its contract.

The ‘expert’ firm has even struggled to  secure real jobs for applicants in the Olympic borough of Newham in East London,  trailing behind even the local council.

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