HM Treasury and the Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation have been at the front and centre of an unprecedented financial sanctions response. Russia’s unprovoked and unwarranted attack on a sovereign nation brought war back to Europe.

The government has recognised this and strengthened OFSI’s powers to enforce financial sanctions as well as its resources. Information on OFSI staff numbers at end 2022 is available in the OFSI 2022 Annual review available here:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1116689/OFSI_Annual_Review_2021-22_10.11.22.pdf

Individual National Health Service employers deliver their own recruitment policies to meet their local need. However, NHS England and NHS Improvement are continuing to work closely with the trusts to ensure that they have appropriate support in place to address the issues identified and that they make sufficient progress.

This post was vacant from 1 June 2011 to 9 January 2012.

The post became vacant again on 10th January 2015 and a recruitment process is underway to appoint a replacement.

The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) also benefits from the Government’s Chief Scientific Adviser being based in BIS.

The independent Migration Advisory Committee advises the Government on suggested changes to the Shortage Occupation List.

There were no additions to the Shortage Occupation List in 2010, 2012 or 2014.

In 2011, 33 roles were added to the list and 29 roles were removed.

In 2013, 28 roles were added to the list and 27 roles were removed.

The number of roles on the list at any one time is not an accurate measure of the extent of skills shortages in the UK economy, as some roles may be more specialised or more narrowly defined. The Migration Advisory Committee
estimates that roles on the current list employ around 180,000 people in total (resident workers as well as migrants) compared to around 500,000 people in roles on the list in 2010.

[holding answer 4 February 2014]: The most recent changes to the shortage occupation list were made in response to the Migration Advisory Committee's report of February 2013. The occupations added to the list were:

Non-consultant, non-training medical staff posts in rehabilitation medicine and psychiatry

All mechanical engineers within the oil and gas industry

Nuclear safety case engineers

Mechanical design engineers (stress)

Piping design engineers

Thermofluid/process engineers

Electrical machine design engineers

Power electronics engineers

Signalling design managers

Signalling design engineers

Signalling principles designers

Senior signalling design checkers

Signalling design checkers

Signalling systems engineers

Product development engineers

Product design engineers

Integrated circuit design engineers

Integrated circuit test engineers

Driver developers

Embedded communications engineers

Specialist electronic engineers

Informaticians

Bio-informaticians

Games designers within the computer games industry.

The Migration Advisory Committee's assessment of the shortages in each of these occupations is set out in its report, which can be found at:

http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/sitecontent/documents/aboutus/workingwithus/mac/34mac-sixth-review/

DWP is working with Monster Worldwide Limited, the Universal Jobmatch supplier, on a timetable for prioritising and implementing improvements to the available Universal Jobmatch Ml, including breakdowns by parliamentary constituency, subject to funding, and so it has no current plans to publish statistics on vacancies by constituency.

Any snapshot of unfilled vacancies at a point in time will miss the regular turnover of new vacancies that are notified as existing opportunities are filled. It will also miss jobs coming up through other recruitment channels or filled by direct approaches to employers or word of mouth.

National Statistics on vacancies at UK-level continue to be reported each month via the ONS Vacancy Survey. A user consultation by DWP on the changes to the Jobcentre 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 Ml tool and some improvements, including the addition of breakdowns by parliamentary constituency, have been suggested. DWP is currently agreeing with Monster Worldwide Ltd, the Universal Jobmatch supplier, a timetable for prioritising and implementing these improvements, subject to funding. Further details will be released as soon as they are available.

2,365,811 new job vacancies have been posted on Universal Jobmatch between 19 November 2012 and 30 June 2013.

The information is shown in the following table.

The number of new job vacancies, by occupation, posted in Universal Jobmatch between its inception on 19 November 2012 and 30 April 2013 is detailed in the following table.

National statistics on vacancies at UK-level continue to be reported each month via the ONS Vacancy Survey. A user consultation by DWP on the changes to the Jobcentre 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, the Universal Jobmatch supplier, a timetable for prioritising and implementing these improvements, subject to funding. Further details will be released as soon as they are available.

The number of new job vacancies posted on Universal Jobmatch between its inception on 19 November 2012 and 30 April 2013 is 1,668,745. Data regarding the number of job outcomes that have been achieved through the Universal Jobmatch service are not collected, and so it is not possible to provide this.