Mark Hoban: Based on the jobs advertised on the Universal Jobmatch service, the number of live job vacancies as at 27 June 2013 in the Thirsk and Malton parliamentary constituency was 68.
Mark Hoban: ...in the wider labour market, including those outside the local constituency, and those coming up through other recruitment channels or filled by direct approaches to employers or word of mouth. Universal Jobmatch has now replaced the previous Jobcentre Plus system of taking vacancies. Information on vacancies reported through the new service is not currently available for parliamentary...
Pamela Nash: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many employers are registered with Universal Jobmatch.
Lord Freud: ...IT skills may be illustrated by the number of vacancies which include a requirement for these skills. Between 19 November 2012 and 30 April 2013, 5,707 vacancies across the UK were advertised on Universal Jobmatch which required specific IT skills. Of these, 241 were related to computer hardware, 916 to software, 3,262 to computer/IT services and 1,288 to internet services. Additionally,...
Mark Hoban: ...are the new vacancies reported between the current and previous vacancy count date. The figures in the table are standardised to cover a period of 4 1/3 weeks. Source: http://www.nomisweb.co.uk/ Universal Jobmatch has now replaced the previous Jobcentre Plus system of taking vacancies. Information on vacancies reported through the new service is not currently available for parliamentary...
Mark Hoban: Based on the jobs advertised on Universal Jobmatch, the number of live job vacancies as at 22 May 2013 in Thirsk and Malton parliamentary constituency is 72. Information regarding job vacancies in the travel- to-work area for this parliamentary constituency is not available from the Universal Jobmatch management information system from which job vacancy data are taken.
Mark Hoban: ...Plus vacancy series was conducted last year and has been published on the DWP statistics web pages. Statistical information for some geographies below national level is already available via the Universal Jobmatch MI tool and some improvements, including the addition of breakdowns by parliamentary constituency, have been suggested. DWP is currently agreeing with Monster Worldwide Limited,...
Iain Duncan Smith: That is correct. On average, about half a million vacant jobs are advertised, and that may not represent all the work that is available. Our universal jobmatch scheme ensures that claimants look for and apply for jobs, because they must be mandated on to the system. The number of private sector jobs has increased by 1.25 million since the election, and every six jobs created over the last six...
Liam Byrne: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many vacancies have been posted on Universal Jobmatch to date; and how many job outcomes have been achieved through that system.
Yvonne Fovargue: ...in the economy and job security, they will not spend, and without spending the economy will not thrive. I stress that there need to be real jobs with real opportunities. When I last checked the universal jobmatch site, 45 of the 67 sales jobs that were advertised within 10 miles of Wigan were self-employed catalogue distribution jobs, many of which demand an up-front fee. lp;&5qI welcome...
Mark Hoban: ...deferral, does not therefore arise. Our Jobcentres in Oldham, Wigan, and Warrington are already trialling elements of universal credit, including the new Claimant Commitment and signing people onto Universal Jobmatch. People living in Ashton-Under-Lyne are the first able to make new claims to universal credit. That will expand to Wigan, Warrington and Oldham when we are satisfied, on the...
Sheila Gilmore: Is the Minister familiar with the universal jobmatch website created by one of his colleagues in the Department for Work and Pensions? If he has looked at the nature of the jobs being advertised there, he will have seen that in my area, 57 out of 76 advertised shop vacancies were for one company, operating all over the east of Scotland, which wanted people to work on a self-employed basis,...
John Mann: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what proportion of jobs advertised on the Universal Jobmatch website in (a) Bassetlaw constituency and (b) the UK were for self-employment since the introduction of that website.
Yvonne Fovargue: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what proportion of jobs advertised on the Universal Jobmatch website were for self-employment in each constituency in the UK since that website was introduced.
Pamela Nash: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how much the Universal Jobmatch website cost his Department to establish; and what the expected annual continual administration and maintenance costs are of the website.
Mark Hoban: ...can be found at: http://statistics.dwp.gov.uk/asd/asd1/jsa/vacancies/user_vie ws.pdf All points raised in the consultation have been considered as part of phased planned improvements to the Universal Jobmatch Ml Tool. Details of the new Tool can be found at: http://statistics.dwp.gov.uk/asd/asd1/jsa/vacancies/index.ph p?page=jsa_vacancy
Mark Hoban: The following figures have been sourced from the Universal Jobmatch system and relate to active full time and part time jobs as at 25 March 2013 for Scotland. Country Number of active jobs Job status Scotland 13,498 Full-time Scotland 3,008 Part-time Scotland 419 Unknown The data relating to each local authority area in Scotland will be placed in the House of Commons...
Yvonne Fovargue: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what proportion of jobs advertised on the Universal Jobmatch website were for self-employment in (a) Makerfield constituency and (b) the UK since that website was introduced.
Yvonne Fovargue: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions if he will publish details of the proportion of jobs advertised through the Universal Jobmatch website in each economic sector since that website was introduced.
Pamela Nash: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many of his Department's staff have received training to help with the administration of the website Universal Jobmatch; and what the cost has been of any such training to date.