Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many jobs where businesses have applied for support via the KickStart scheme her Department has (a) approved, (b) rejected and (c) not made a decision on in (i) England, (ii) West Midlands and (iii) Birmingham, Ladywood constituency.

There have been over 180,000 jobs approved by the Department of Work and Pensions’ Kickstart scheme nationally. We are not able to break this information down geographically.

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.