To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to KPMG and the Recruitment and Employment Confederation's publication entitled Report on Jobs April, published on 10 May 2023, whether he has made an assessment of the implications for his policies of trends in the level of permanent staff recruited between January 2021 and April 2023.

No such assessment has been made in the light of that report. DWP regularly monitors and assesses a range of timely internal and external indicators on the performance of UK labour market and economy.