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Letter from Karen Dunnell:
As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your Parliamentary Question asking how many job vacancies there were in (a) Vale of York constituency, (b) North Yorkshire and (c) England in (i) 2006, (ii) 2007 and (iii) 2008. (254271)
The Office for National Statistics estimates the number of vacancies from the Vacancy Survey, but estimates below UK are not available from this source.
An alternative source of information on job vacancies is administrative data from Jobcentre Plus. This data only includes job vacancies notified to Jobcentre Plus and consequently is inconsistent with the UK estimates from the Vacancy Survey; however geographical breakdowns of this data are available.
Table 1 attached, shows the number of live unfilled job vacancies held by Jobcentre Plus for the Vale of York constituency, North Yorkshire and England in December of 2006, 2007 and 2008. Figures from Jobcentre Plus for Great Britain, along with three month averages for the UK from the Vacancy Survey have also been included for comparison.
Not seasonally adjusted Vale of York North Yorkshire England Great Britain December 2006 478 3,007 264,618 308,414 December 2007 1,079 4,086 342,840 394,904 December 2008 477 2,154 238,385 271,011 1 Job vacancies for Vale of York, North Yorkshire. England and Great Britain are live unfilled vacancies from the Jobcentre Plus administrative data. The GB totals are much lower than the UK figures from the ONS Vacancy Survey. Source: Jobcentre Plus Administrative Data
UK October to December 2006 603,000 October to December 2007 676,000 September to November 2008 562,000 Source: Vacancy Survey, ONS