Asked by: Nick Fletcher (Conservative - Don Valley)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 26 June 2023 to Question 189864 on Public Lavatories: Men, when the Health and Safety Executive plans to review its guidance on the disposal of sanitary dressings in toilets for men; and whether there will be a public consultation on this matter.
Answered by Mims Davies - Shadow Minister (Women)
HSE is the workplace regulator therefore the legislation and guidance will apply to toilets used by workers in workplaces made available to them as a place of work.
HSE have begun a review of the Approved Code of Practice (ACOP) and guidance for the Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations. They currently estimate they will be in a position to carry out a public consultation in summer 2024.
However, in the meantime, HSE have updated their web guidance to ensure it is clear that provision must be made for any worker with a disability to enable them to have access to facilities which are adjusted to their use if necessary.
Asked by: Nick Fletcher (Conservative - Don Valley)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of Universal Credit claimants received childcare support in the latest year for which data is available.
Answered by Guy Opperman
Statistics on the number of households in receipt of Universal Credit are published every three months. The latest statistics are available by the number of households who either receive or do not receive the childcare element, to August 2022, on Stat-Xplore.
Asked by: Nick Fletcher (Conservative - Don Valley)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many fatalities have occurred in the workplace by sex in each of the last five years for which data is available.
Answered by Mims Davies - Shadow Minister (Women)
As the regulator for workplace health and safety, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) collects information on fatal injuries resulting from work-related accidents.
Statistics of work-related fatal injuries by sex are published by HSE on HSE’s website. Published statistics for work-related fatal injuries by sex for 2017/18 to 2021/22 are as follows:
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Year | All | Male | Female |
2017/18 | 141 | 135 | 6 |
2018/19 | 149 | 142 | 7 |
2019/20 | 113 | 110 | 3 |
2020/21 (revised) | 145 | 141 | 4 |
2021/22 (provisional) | 123 | 116 | 7 |
Source: Work-related fatal injuries in Great Britain reportable under the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrence Regulations (RIDDOR).
Asked by: Nick Fletcher (Conservative - Don Valley)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Kickstart scheme placements have been (a) approved, (b) advertised and (c) started by young people in each (i) sector, (ii) region and (iii) nation as of 11 May 2022.
Answered by Mims Davies - Shadow Minister (Women)
The most recent data available is for the 8 May 2022. At that point over 162,600 Kickstart jobs had been started by young people. The last Kickstart jobs were started by young people on 31 March 2022, and we expect the number of starts to increase further as employers report commencement of employment.
We have previously published the number of jobs approved and advertised as of 31 January 2022, here. At that point, over 235,000 jobs had been advertised and over 305,000 had been approved. Kickstart has now closed to employer applications and, as of March 2022, all approved jobs proceeding to the advertisement stage, have been advertised. As such, these totals will not increase further.
Below are tables listing the number of Kickstart jobs which have been made available and started by young people to date by geographical area of Great Britain and work sector. The figures used are correct as of the 8 May 2022 and these figures have been rounded according to departmental standards.
Jobs made available (advertised) and job starts quoted here include some unfunded Kickstart jobs. Also included in the Great Britain total are a small number of jobs made available (less than 100 in total) that have an unrecorded job location.
The number of approved jobs is defined as the number of jobs associated with approved applications recorded on the Kickstart application system on the date above. This total excludes approved jobs that have been withdrawn from the Kickstart Scheme by agreement with employers and gateways. This is generally because, over time, some previously approved jobs were removed where the employer chose not to follow up the application.
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. Work is ongoing to improve the quality of information available for the programme.
Table 1: Number of Kickstart total available jobs and job starts, Great Britain, by nation and region (figures rounded to nearest 100*)
| Total jobs made available | Total jobs started |
Region / Nation Split | (DATA RETAINED FROM 31/01/22) | (DATA EFFECTIVE 08/05/22) |
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Total, Great Britain | 235,000 | 162,600 |
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England | 204,000 | 140,200 |
East Midlands | 14,000 | 10,300 |
East of England | 18,000 | 11,800 |
London | 51,000 | 32,800 |
North East | 11,000 | 8,100 |
North West | 30,000 | 20,600 |
South East | 26,000 | 17,300 |
South West | 14,000 | 9,800 |
West Midlands | 21,000 | 15,800 |
Yorkshire and The Humber | 19,000 | 13,700 |
Scotland | 19,000 | 14,300 |
Wales | 12,000 | 8,000 |
Table 2: Number of Kickstart total available jobs and job starts, Great Britain, by Sector (figures rounded to the nearest 10*)
Sector Split | Total jobs made available | Total jobs started |
| (DATA RETAINED FROM 31/01/22) | (DATA EFFECTIVE 08/05/22) |
Administration | 57,350 | 40,000 |
Animal Care | 1,610 | 1,330 |
Beauty & Wellbeing | 1,720 | 1,320 |
Business & Finance | 8,500 | 5,930 |
Computing Technology & Digital | 15,840 | 12,360 |
Construction & Trades | 7,230 | 5,190 |
Creative & Media | 20,990 | 16,730 |
Delivery & Storage | 6,380 | 4,430 |
Emergency & Uniform Services | 520 | 360 |
Engineering & Maintenance | 7,080 | 4,900 |
Environment & Land | 4,620 | 3,450 |
Government Services | 1,000 | 710 |
Healthcare | 6,140 | 3,460 |
Home Services | 1,560 | 900 |
Hospitality & Food | 26,380 | 14,060 |
Law & Legal | 650 | 520 |
Managerial | 960 | 660 |
Manufacturing | 6,430 | 4,400 |
Retail & Sales | 34,970 | 26,450 |
Science & Research | 990 | 790 |
Social Care | 4,740 | 2,640 |
Sports & Leisure | 5,920 | 4,170 |
Teaching & Education | 11,000 | 6,800 |
Transport | 900 | 460 |
Travel & Tourism | 1,110 | 580 |
* Due to rounding, sum of figures may not match declared total