Social Security Benefits and Vacancies

(asked on 24th March 2025) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will publish the most recent data on the number of (a) unemployed benefit claimants and (b) job vacancies by Jobcentre.


Answered by
Alison McGovern Portrait
Alison McGovern
Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
This question was answered on 27th March 2025

A) Claimant count data for the UK is published and available at: Nomis - Official Census and Labour Market Statistics.

Data on the number of people claiming out of work benefits is published and available at: Stat-Xplore - Home.

B) There are no published statistics on job vacancies by job centre. However, the number of online job adverts by local authorities can be found here: Labour demand volumes by Standard Occupation Classification (SOC 2020), UK - Office for National Statistics

Reticulating Splines