Kickstart Scheme

(asked on 18th October 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent estimate she has made of the number of job placements made via the Kickstart scheme (a) to date, (b) in each of the last six months and (c) by region.


Answered by
Mims Davies Portrait
Mims Davies
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)
This question was answered on 21st October 2021

As of the 11th October, 86,000 young people have started a Kickstart job. Over 204,900 roles have been made available for young people to apply to through the scheme and over 307,500 jobs have been approved for funding.

The tables below list the number of starts per month over the last 6 months as well as the number of Kickstart jobs which have been made available and started by young people to date by geographical area of Great Britain. The figures used are correct as of the 11th October and these figures have been rounded according to departmental standards.

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- Jobs started on the Kickstart Scheme by month.

Month

Monthly Starts

April

9,480

May

10,300

June

11,940

July

11,610

August

11,280

September

16,640

Table 2- Jobs made available and started on the Kickstart Scheme by Location.

Location

Jobs Made Available

Total Jobs Started

East Midlands

12,500

5,240

East of England

16,400

6,060

London

43,500

18,560

North East

8,300

4,000

North West

25,400

10,930

Scotland

15,200

7,420

South East

23,500

9,330

South West

14,700

5,610

Wales

11,100

4,190

West Midlands

18,500

7,870

Yorkshire and The Humber

15,800

6,760

*These numbers are rounded and so may not match provided totals. Jobs Made Available include 1,000 non-grant funded vacancies and Total Starts include around 900 starts to non-grant funded jobs

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