Questions to the Mayor of London – answered at on 16 March 2021.
How many jobs have you created each year through mayoral schemes and initiatives since May 2016? Please give a breakdown of the number of jobs created each year and the amount of annual mayoral funding per scheme.
The figures below are estimates of jobs that can be directly attributed to listed Mayoral schemes and initiatives by scheme and year.
You have asked for the funding committed to each job creation scheme. In these schemes job creation is only one outcome of programme funding and therefore it is not possible to disaggregate the costs of the job creation schemes.
The programmes are likely to have a wider impact on job creation, such as through putting in place infrastructure and other foundational arrangements that encourage new businesses to be established and enable existing business to grow.
There are also programmes that support the Mayor’s strategic objectives to promote the right conditions for good growth across the capital and the creation of jobs, not described here.
Job Creation Data Table
Programme
2016/17
2017/18
2018/19
2019/20
2020/21
10,112
11,868
4,455
3,549
2,796
32,780
4185
5709
6527
12118
2016
30555
LEAP (2)
177 (3)
84
3720
2705
3622
10,308
ESF (4)
8877
ERDF (5)
-
-
-
-
3802
TfL Supplier Skills Programme Job Starts
875
911
1027
426
3239
Growing Places Fund (6)
9
382
2003
324
2718
TfL Supplier Skills Programme Apprenticeships
366
416
521
619
206
2128
Mayor's Regeneration Fund (7)
126
125
409
660
TfL Construction Skills Programme
258
280
538
High Streets Fund (8)
22
84
65
1
172
MedCity (9)
39
10
14
25
13 (6)
101
Royal Docks (10)
15 (7)
Notes
(1) In 2012/19 London and Partners stopped recording jobs created in the leisure/ tourism industry, which accounted for 2000-3000 jobs in previous years' figures. The strategic focus also shifted to high-value jobs, creating fewer but more valuable jobs. (2) LEAP projects will continue to deliver over the coming years, so we also anticipate that further job creation will be reported for LEAP investments as these projects progress and complete. These figures include all LEAP funded programmes- Good Growth Fun, Skills for London Fund and others. This data runs to the end of February 2021. (3) The jobs figure includes data from the 2015/16 financial year, which it is not possible to exclude due to the way it was reported historically (4) The ESF figures run up to June 2020. It is not possible to provide an annual breakdown due to the way that data is reported (5) It is not possible to provide an annual breakdown due to the way that data is reported (6) This data runs to the end of March 2020 (7) This data run to the end of February 2021 (8) This programme ran from 2012 to 2014 (9) The figures for 2020/21 are provisional (10) This figure replaces forecasted data submitted as part of MQ 2020/2468, which stated that 24 jobs were created.