Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 3 March 2021 to Question 158103 on the Kickstart Scheme, if she will publish (a) a monthly breakdown of when the 140,000 jobs linked to the scheme were approved and (b) the timescale for those jobs being launched.

There are over 150,000 approved Kickstart jobs, of which:

• 43,000 jobs were approved between 04/02/2021 – 04/03/21;
• 54,000 jobs were approved between 04/01/2021 – 03/02/21.

The remaining 47,000 is from the start of Kickstart in September 2020 to 03/01/2021 and data is not available to break this down further.

These jobs can be opened for application and started at any point up to the final jobs starting in December 2021.

All figures are rounded to the nearest thousand jobs. 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.