Kickstart Scheme: Hospitality Industry

(asked on 14th December 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of businesses in the UK's hospitality sector have taken part in the Government's Kickstart scheme.


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

As of 8th December, the Department for Work and Pensions’ Kickstart Scheme has seen over 112,000 jobs started by young people. These jobs are assigned to a sector based on the type of work required by that particular role. We do not centrally collate data on the sector of each employer participating in the Scheme. A digital Kickstart job, for example, could be for an employer in the hospitality industry. For recent statistics on the number of Kickstart jobs started and made available by sector, I refer the honourable member to PQ 71418.

As a part of the evaluation of the Kickstart scheme, the Department for Work and Pensions will examine engagement with the scheme across different sectors.

To support the hospitality industry during the pandemic, the Government published it’s hospitality strategy in July (Hospitality strategy: reopening, recovery, resilience) and has put in place a number of measures including supporting the development of hospitality-led regeneration hubs through our levelling-up agenda, creating opportunities for the sector and increased job opportunities.

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