Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the total number of job vacancies per income decile in each of the last five years in (a) Wales and (b) the rest of the UK.

The latest official data available from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) shows that there are currently 823,000 vacancies in the UK, a record number. However, the ONS does not publish vacancies data per income decile, nor does it publish vacancies data at a regional or sub-regional level. This means it is not possible to calculate the total number of job vacancies per income decile for Wales or for the rest of the UK over the last five years.