Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department has taken to test the effectiveness of the Find a job website in recruiting local people into seasonal worker roles in the ornamental horticulture sector.

The requested information is not available.

It is not possible to give specific information about ornamental horticulture vacancies advertised using Find a job or offered as part of our Sector-based Work Academy Programmes (SWAPs).

Employers categorise their vacancies by business sector, but this data is not granular enough to distinguish ornamental horticulture roles, which employers advertise across many different sectors ranging from agriculture and forestry, facilities management to retail.