Asked by: Baroness Wilcox of Newport (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how much money in total they have paid to employers through a Kickstart Scheme grant.
Answered by Baroness Stedman-Scott
Information relating to Kickstart grants will be published by the Cabinet Office on the Government website in due course, as is standard practice for all Government general grants. This information is normally published about a year after the financial year end and includes grant value and recipients.
Asked by: Baroness Wilcox of Newport (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they contract any company (1) to run part of, or (2) to approve applications for, the Kickstart Scheme; if so, what are the names of those companies; what are their roles and responsibilities; and how much are the contracts worth.
Answered by Baroness Stedman-Scott
No companies are contracted to run part of, or approve applications for, the Departments’ Kickstart Scheme.
Asked by: Baroness Wilcox of Newport (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what is the name of (1) each individual employer, and (2) each employer which is part of a Kickstart gateway, which has had applications approved through the Kickstart Scheme; and how many jobs has each named employer made available through the Scheme.
Answered by Baroness Stedman-Scott
Organisations in receipt of a Kickstart grant will have their details published on the Government website in due course, as is standard practice for all organisations in receipt of a Government grant. This information has not been published yet as organisations are still applying and being approved for Kickstart funding.
For applications approved between the start of the scheme in September 2020 through to June 2021, there have been, on average, 14 Kickstart jobs available for young people to apply to per Kickstart employer (this includes individual employers and those that have applied through a Kickstart gateway).
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.
Asked by: Baroness Wilcox of Newport (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many (1) women, and (2) men, have started Kickstart jobs.
Answered by Baroness Stedman-Scott
As of 27th May 2021, there have been over 29,000 job placement starts to the Kickstart Scheme.
As the Kickstart Scheme had to be launched quickly to support eligible 16 to 24 year olds on Universal Credit who were at risk of long-term unemployment, a means of recording the number of participating young people from ethnic minorities or by gender was not prioritised in the initial design. Ethnicity and gender are recorded on the wider Universal Credit systems and will be used in the evaluation of the Scheme.
Asked by: Baroness Wilcox of Newport (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many people who have started jobs through the Kickstart scheme were (1) black, (2) Asian; (3) other ethnic minority, and (4) white.
Answered by Baroness Stedman-Scott
As of 27th May 2021, there have been over 29,000 job placement starts to the Kickstart Scheme.
As the Kickstart Scheme had to be launched quickly to support eligible 16 to 24 year olds on Universal Credit who were at risk of long-term unemployment, a means of recording the number of participating young people from ethnic minorities or by gender was not prioritised in the initial design. Ethnicity and gender are recorded on the wider Universal Credit systems and will be used in the evaluation of the Scheme.
Asked by: Baroness Wilcox of Newport (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many Kickstart placements have been created with oil and gas companies; and which oil and gas companies such placements have been created with.
Answered by Baroness Stedman-Scott
Kickstart jobs are categorised into broad sectors when vacancies details are made available for work coaches to encourage young people to apply for them. The sector category relates to the job type, rather than the nature of the main activities undertaken by the employer. This means for example, that an administrative job within an oil company would be categorised as ‘administrative’, rather than ‘oil & gas’.
A breakdown of jobs started and made available by sector, this could include any jobs with Oil and Gas employers, is available here: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2021-05-20/hl457
As of 20th May, almost 8,000 Kickstart Scheme applications from employers and Gateways (each representing a number of employers) had been approved. To establish which employers associated with the Oil and Gas industry have approved Kickstart jobs would require reviewing all these approved applications to consider the principal activities of each employer, this information could only be provided at disproportionate cost.
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.
Asked by: Baroness Wilcox of Newport (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask Her Majesty's Government in which sectors Kickstart placements have been created; and how many Kickstart placements have been (1) created, and (2) filled, in each sector.
Answered by Baroness Stedman-Scott
As of the 27th May 2021, over 133,000 jobs have been made available for young people to apply for through the Department for Work and Pensions’ (DWP) Kickstart Scheme. This includes over 29,000 jobs started by young people.
There have been over 219,000 jobs approved for funding through the scheme.
The tables below show figures split by job sector (rather than the sector of the employer), the data has been rounded according to DWP statistical rounding convention.
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.
Sector | Jobs Made Available | Total Jobs Started |
Administration | 33,630 | 7,480 |
Animal Care | 600 | 240 |
Beauty & Wellbeing | 930 | 230 |
Business & Finance | 4,830 | 1,000 |
Computing, Technology & Digital | 10,050 | 2,770 |
Construction & Trades | 4,360 | 990 |
Creative & Media | 10,040 | 3,070 |
Delivery & Storage | 4,020 | 870 |
Emergency & Uniform Services | 320 | 20 |
Engineering & Maintenance | 4,740 | 780 |
Environment & Land | 2,500 | 540 |
Government Services | 310 | 50 |
Healthcare | 4,800 | 800 |
Home Services | 1,000 | 120 |
Hospitality & Food | 11,140 | 1,760 |
Law & Legal | 320 | 110 |
Managerial | 930 | 170 |
Manufacturing | 3,250 | 800 |
Retail & Sales | 21,720 | 4,910 |
Science & Research | 630 | 130 |
Social Care | 3,270 | 400 |
Sports & Leisure | 3,020 | 640 |
Teaching & Education | 5,760 | 1,110 |
Transport | 450 | 60 |
Travel & Tourism | 500 | 80 |
Figures may not add up to provided totals due to rounding. 1,000 non-grant funded jobs are included in Jobs Advertised but not included under Jobs Started. Total jobs started includes those which have been completed or ended early. | ||