Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to page 71 of the Social Mobility Commission's report, Time for Change: an assessment of government policies on social mobility 1997-2017, published on 28 June 2017, what assessment he has made of the effect of welfare reforms and policies encouraging labour market flexibility on (a) rates of labour force participation, (b) job quality, (c) productivity and (d) worker progression.

The Department has made no formal assessment of Labour Market Impacts in direct relation to the Social Mobility Report.

We do publish Impact assessments of welfare policies which include an assessment of their labour market impact. These can be found on the link below.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications?keywords=&publication_filter_option=impact-assessments&topics%5B%5D=all&departments%5B%5D=department-for-work-pensions&official_document_status=all&world_locations%5B%5D=all&from_date=&to_date=