Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many applications have been made, covering how many vacancies, to the Kickstart scheme in (a) Birmingham and (b) the West Midlands, to date.

So far applications from Gateways and employers covering 32,113 jobs have been approved.

We are currently finalising out MI data at a local level and we will be able to provide further
information such as regional figures in the early new year.