Employment
(asked on 17th December 2020) - View Source
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Agnew of Oulton on 11 December (HL10795), what was the total number of paid employees residing in (1) each of region in England, and (2) each country of the UK, from April 2019 to March 2020 recorded in HMRC Pay As You Earn Real Time Information data.
The table below sets out the number of paid employees residing in each of region in England from April 2019 to March 2020, as recorded in HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) Pay As You Earn (PAYE) Real Time Information (RTI) data.
Month | North East | North West | Yorkshire and the Humber | East Midlands | West Midlands | East |
April 2019 | 1,065,409 | 3,137,816 | 2,300,551 | 2,120,447 | 2,485,313 | 2,772,974 |
May 2019 | 1,066,080 | 3,137,620 | 2,300,333 | 2,120,439 | 2,485,075 | 2,771,953 |
June 2019 | 1,066,562 | 3,138,906 | 2,302,000 | 2,121,030 | 2,484,875 | 2,772,962 |
July 2019 | 1,065,660 | 3,139,186 | 2,301,235 | 2,119,597 | 2,481,664 | 2,772,737 |
August 2019 | 1,069,074 | 3,144,592 | 2,306,052 | 2,122,111 | 2,486,040 | 2,776,981 |
September 2019 | 1,071,202 | 3,146,634 | 2,309,501 | 2,124,047 | 2,487,774 | 2,779,943 |
October 2019 | 1,071,728 | 3,147,835 | 2,308,300 | 2,123,763 | 2,488,441 | 2,780,209 |
November 2019 | 1,072,399 | 3,150,222 | 2,309,815 | 2,124,824 | 2,487,414 | 2,781,880 |
December 2019 | 1,072,789 | 3,150,342 | 2,310,246 | 2,124,354 | 2,486,609 | 2,783,622 |
January 2020 | 1,074,192 | 3,152,781 | 2,312,715 | 2,126,676 | 2,488,194 | 2,785,231 |
February 2020 | 1,075,642 | 3,153,077 | 2,312,765 | 2,127,755 | 2,488,819 | 2,785,062 |
March 2020 | 1,076,053 | 3,152,661 | 2,313,687 | 2,124,924 | 2,488,551 | 2,783,615 |
Month | London | South East | South West |
April 2019 | 4,116,863 | 4,076,344 | 2,408,685 |
May 2019 | 4,112,387 | 4,077,830 | 2,412,936 |
June 2019 | 4,117,530 | 4,079,886 | 2,414,122 |
July 2019 | 4,117,859 | 4,079,868 | 2,411,973 |
August 2019 | 4,125,424 | 4,084,737 | 2,417,680 |
September 2019 | 4,131,487 | 4,090,166 | 2,420,027 |
October 2019 | 4,132,412 | 4,088,062 | 2,419,985 |
November 2019 | 4,133,033 | 4,090,528 | 2,420,215 |
December 2019 | 4,139,300 | 4,092,004 | 2,421,205 |
January 2020 | 4,142,490 | 4,094,403 | 2,425,980 |
February 2020 | 4,139,134 | 4,094,158 | 2,422,459 |
March 2020 | 4,132,450 | 4,088,675 | 2,420,358 |
The table below sets out the number of paid employees residing in each country of the UK, from April 2019 to March 2020, as recorded in HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) Pay As You Earn (PAYE) Real Time Information (RTI) data.
Month | England | Wales | Scotland | Northern Ireland |
April 2019 | 24,484,402 | 1,255,933 | 2,391,779 | 741,714 |
May 2019 | 24,484,653 | 1,256,903 | 2,392,995 | 742,256 |
June 2019 | 24,497,873 | 1,257,748 | 2,392,860 | 743,088 |
July 2019 | 24,489,779 | 1,257,585 | 2,391,974 | 745,959 |
August 2019 | 24,532,691 | 1,260,027 | 2,393,484 | 746,570 |
September 2019 | 24,560,781 | 1,260,392 | 2,395,389 | 747,484 |
October 2019 | 24,560,735 | 1,259,622 | 2,395,250 | 748,139 |
November 2019 | 24,570,330 | 1,260,986 | 2,394,490 | 750,560 |
December 2019 | 24,580,471 | 1,261,581 | 2,397,707 | 751,309 |
January 2020 | 24,602,662 | 1,264,215 | 2,401,985 | 752,946 |
February 2020 | 24,598,871 | 1,264,787 | 2,396,300 | 754,489 |
March 2020 | 24,580,974 | 1,262,454 | 2,395,550 | 755,739 |
Please note:
(1) These figures have been taken from the publication “Earnings and employment from Pay As You Earn Real Time Information” published jointly by HMRC and the Office for National Statistics (ONS) on 15 December 2020[1].
(2) These figures are as accurate as reported through PAYE RTI. However, PAYE schemes not paying any of their employees above the NICs threshold are not obliged to report employees' earnings through RTI. Therefore, some employees may be excluded from these statistics.
(3) The address information has been taken from individuals’ addresses as at March 2020.