Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average turnover is of businesses that have applied for KickStart scheme support that have been (a) approved and (b) rejected in (i) England, (ii) West Midlands and (iii) Birmingham, Ladywood constituency.
As of the 12th March 2021, there have been over 900 unique gateway applications approved and over 1,200 unique employer bids accepted on the Kickstart Scheme with many more employers included under the gateway applications.
We are currently unable to publish the number of rejected applications. We are also unable to publish information broken down below regional level.
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.