Question follow-through · 40489
Social Security Benefits and Vacancies
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will publish the most recent data on the number of (a) unemployed benefit claimants and (b) job vacancies by Jobcentre.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 24 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 27 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 27 Mar 2025 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
24 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will publish the most recent data on the number of (a) unemployed benefit claimants and (b) job vacancies by Jobcentre.
27 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
27 Mar 2025
Answer published
A) Claimant count data for the UK is published and available at: Nomis - Official Census and Labour Market Statistics. Data on the number of people claiming out of work benefits is published and available at: Stat-Xplore - Home. B) There are no published ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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