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Wednesday 28th April 2021

Asked by: Mark Jenkinson (Conservative - Workington)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many jobs have been approved by the Kickstart Scheme nationally to date.

Answered by Mims Davies - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)

As of 22nd April, there has been over 195,000 jobs approved by the Department of Work and Pension’s Kickstart scheme.

Although care is taken when processing and analysing Kickstart applications, referrals and starts, the data collected might be subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large-scale recording system which has been developed quickly. The management information presented here has not been subjected to the usual standard of quality assurance associated with official statistics, but is provided in the interests of transparency.


Written Question
Kickstart Scheme
Tuesday 27th April 2021

Asked by: Mark Jenkinson (Conservative - Workington)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Kickstart scheme, how many jobs have been (a) made available for application to young people by that scheme; and (b) started by young people in each (i) business sector and (ii) region of the UK.

Answered by Mims Davies - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)

As of the 22nd April 2021, over 93,000 jobs have been made available for young people to apply to through the Department for Work and Pensions’ (DWP) Kickstart Scheme. This includes approximately 16,600* jobs started by young people. There have been over 195,000 jobs approved by the scheme.

More than 260 young people, on average, have started a Kickstart job every day for the last six weeks**.

The tables below show these figures split by region and sector, the data presented has been rounded according to DWP statistical rounding convention. Although care is taken when processing and analysing Kickstart applications, referrals and starts, the data collected might be subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large-scale recording system which has been developed quickly. The management information presented here has not been subjected to the usual standard of quality assurance associated with official statistics, but is provided in the interests of transparency.

*Around 1,000 of the Kickstart jobs started have been provided without government funding.

** This is based on the number of young people starting in Kickstart jobs from 11th March 2021 to 22nd April 2021.

Regions

Jobs Advertised

Jobs Started

Central England

19,000

2,900

London and Essex

22,000

3,800

North East England

6,600

1,200

North West England

16,000

3,100

Scotland

6,500

1,200

Southern England

19,000

3,200

Wales

5,300

740

Figures may not add up to provided totals due to rounding. 1,000 non-grant funded jobs are included in Jobs Advertised but not included under Jobs Started.

By Sector

Jobs Advertised

Jobs Started

Administration

24,000

4,300

Animal Care

430

130

Beauty & Wellbeing

600

100

Business & Finance

3,700

620

Computing, Technology & Digital

7,500

1,700

Construction & Trades

3,100

580

Creative & Media

7,300

1,800

Delivery & Storage

3,000

580

Emergency & Uniform Services

190

10

Engineering & Maintenance

3,400

380

Environment & Land

1,800

280

Government Services

280

20

Healthcare

4,100

520

Home Services

710

70

Hospitality & Food

6,100

750

Law & Legal

240

70

Managerial

750

100

Manufacturing

2,400

510

Retail & Sales

15,000

2,300

Science & Research

420

70

Social Care

2,600

210

Sports & Leisure

2,000

330

Teaching & Education

4,100

610

Transport

370

30

Travel & Tourism

250

30

Figures may not add up to provided totals due to rounding. 1,000 non-grant funded jobs are included in Jobs Advertised but not included under Jobs Started.


Written Question
Children: Maintenance
Thursday 10th September 2020

Asked by: Mark Jenkinson (Conservative - Workington)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to reference to the Child Maintenance Service standard practice of making reassessments when there is a 25 per cent reduction in income, what estimate the Child Maintenance Service has made of the number of non-resident parents whose income has been reduced by 20 per cent under the Government's furlough scheme in response to the covid-19 outbreak.

Answered by Mims Davies - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)

The CMS has not made any estimate of the number of non-resident parents whose income has been reduced by 20% under the Government’s furlough scheme.

The Government recognises that the income of many separated parents has been affected by the public health emergency. Parents should continue to financially support their children by paying their child maintenance. At the same time, liabilities should remain affordable for paying parents at a time of substantial and rapid fluctuation in incomes.

The scheme is designed so that liabilities remain consistent over the year, with limited changes. The calculation is reviewed annually, and generally only changes during the year if a parents’ income increases or decreases by at least 25 per cent. This balances consistency for children with support for parents experiencing a reduction in income.


Written Question
Children: Maintenance
Wednesday 9th September 2020

Asked by: Mark Jenkinson (Conservative - Workington)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the effect on the processing of (a) new and (b) existing Child Maintenance Service cases of new parents' inability to register births during the covid-19 outbreak; and what assessment her Department has made of the effect on that service's users of the Child Maintenance Service not being able to backdate payments more than 12 weeks once those new birth registrations have been confirmed.

Answered by Mims Davies - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)

No assessment has been made.

In response to the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency, temporary changes to the Child Maintenance Service (CMS) were introduced to ensure we could continue to deliver our priorities in supporting separated parents while also supporting wider efforts across the Department to provide financial support to more people. The CMS has now reinstated a full service.