Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the oral Answer of 26 January 2015, Official Report, column 550, on job creation (Yorkshire), what the evidential basis is for the statement that of the jobs created in Shipley and Yorkshire, 80 per cent are full-time and 75 per cent are managerial and professional.

Using data from the Annual Population Survey, comparing the average level of employment in the year to September 2014 with average level in the year to June 2010, full-time employment accounted for nearly 80 per cent of total employment growth in Yorkshire and managerial, professional and associate professional jobs accounted for 75 per cent of the growth in employment.