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Written question asked by Susan Elan Jones (Labour) on Monday, 20 May 2013, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 3 June 2013. It was answered by Mark Hoban (Conservative) on Tuesday, 4 June 2013 on behalf of the Department for Work and Pensions.

Unemployment: Clwyd

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many (a) job vacancies and (b) jobseekers there were in Clwyd South constituency on (i) 1 February 2011, (ii) 1 February 2012 and (iii) 1 February 2013.

[156881]

Answer

The available information is shown in the following table. Comparisons of the number of unemployed people and the number of vacancies need to be interpreted carefully. Any snapshot of unfilled vacancies at a point in time misses the regular turnover of new vacancies that are notified as existing opportunities are filled. Both unfilled and notified vacancies miss jobs available 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.

Clwyd South: Notified and unfilled Jobcentre Plus vacancies
JSA claimants1
 Live unfilled vacancies2
 Notified vacancies3
February 2011
 1,571
 191
 209
February 2012
 1,811
 197
 321
February 2013
 1,770
 —
 —
1 The claimant count is a count of the number of JSA claimants on the second Thursday of the relevant month.
2 Live unfilled vacancies are a snap-shot of vacancies available on the preceding Friday.
3 Notified vacancies 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 constituencies. Some information, including notified vacancies at local authority level, is available via a Universal Jobmatch management information (MI) tool:

https://jobsearch.direct.gov.uk/Reports/Reports.aspx

Data drawn from Universal Jobmatch should not be compared directly to the previous Jobcentre Plus data.

DWP is working with Monster Worldwide Limited, the Universal Jobmatch supplier, on a timetable for prioritising and implementing improvements to the available MI, including breakdowns by parliamentary constituency. Further details will be released as soon as they are available.

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
156881; 563 c1102W
Session
2013-14
Subjects
Vacancies Unemployment Clwyd
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
View this Written question on www.publications.parliament.uk