Labour Market and Welfare
The Labour Market and Welfare theme includes statistics measuring different aspects of work and jobs and covers people’s employment, working patterns and the types of work they do. The theme also covers any earnings and benefits they receive.
We recently commented on a range of labour market and welfare statistics. We:
- Our findings on the compliance check of the Indices of Deprivation statistics in England, Scotland and Wales (July 2020)
- A package of outputs on labour market statistics including our assessment report of the Office for National Statistics’ UK employment and jobs statistics and our findings from our compliance check of key labour market statistical reports for the devolved administrations (March 2020)
- An update on progress by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), DWP and HMRC against recommendations of the 2015 Coherence and Accessibility of Official Statistics on Income and Earnings Review (February 2019)
Our future plans for 2020/21 include an assessment of the Department for Work and Pensions’ Benefits Statistical Summary and an assessment of the Department for Communities’ Personal Independence Payment statistics for Northern Ireland.
Contact our regulators for this domain Catherine Bremner and Elise Baseley for more information.
Planned Work
| Project | Geography | Project Type | Timescale |
|---|---|---|---|
| Personal Independence Payment statistics (Department for Communities, Northern Ireland) | Northern Ireland | Assessment | October 2020 - March 2021 |
| Northern Ireland Benefits Statistics Summary (Department for Communities, Northern Ireland) | Northern Ireland | Compliance Check | April - September 2020 |
| Index of Multiple Deprivation (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, Scottish Government, Welsh Government) | England, Scotland, and Wales | Compliance Checks x 3 | April - September 2020 |
| Youth Unemployment APS quarterly release (Scottish Government) | Scotland | Compliance Check | October 2020 - March 2021 |
| Quarterly Benefits Summary (Department for Work and Pensions) | Great Britain | Assessment | Continuing from 2019/20 |
| UK Employment and Jobs statistics (Office for National Statistics), including follow up on Compliance Checks in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland | United Kingdom, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland | Assessment | Continuing from 2019/20: Phase 2 |
Correspondence
Mark Pont to Glyn Jones: Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation 2019 statistics
16 July 2020
Mark Pont, Office for Statistics Regulation to Glyn Jones, Welsh Government
Mark Pont to Roger Halliday: Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2020 statistics
16 July 2020
Mark Pont, Office for Statistics Regulation to Roger Halliday, Scottish Government
Mark Pont to Siobhan Carey: Northern Ireland Multiple Deprivation Measure
16 July 2020
Mark Pont, Office for Statistics Regulation to Siobhan Carey, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency
Mark Pont to Sandra Tudor: English Indices of Deprivation 2019 statistics
16 July 2020
Mark Pont, Office for Statistics Regulation to Sandra Tudor, Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Ed Humpherson to Sean Whellams: Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme and Self-Employment Income Support Scheme statistics
15 July 2020
Ed Humpherson, Office for Statistics Regulation to Sean Whellams, HMRC
Publications
Assessment Report: UK employment and jobs statistics
26 March 2020
Published in: Assessment Report
Statistics on Sickness Absence in the Northern Ireland Civil Service
30 April 2019
Published in: Assessment Report