Lord Livermore – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Cabinet Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Livermore on 2016-04-12.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what they consider to be the most accurate way of measuring social mobility in the UK.

Lord Bridges of Headley

There is currently no commonly agreed measure for socio-economic background for employers in the UK. As committed to in our Talent Action Plan 2016, we are working with a number of major employers and organisations promoting social mobility to create new national common measures for determining socio-economic background of applicants and workforces. This will help to boost social mobility in workplaces across the UK, in both the public and private sectors.