Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what they consider to be the most accurate way of measuring social mobility in the UK.

There is currently no commonly agreed measure for socio-economic background for employers in the UK. As committed to in our Talent Action Plan 2016, we are working with a number of major employers and organisations promoting social mobility to create new national common measures for determining socio-economic background of applicants and workforces. This will help to boost social mobility in workplaces across the UK, in both the public and private sectors.