Monitoring the employment impact of mayoral programmes and initiatives

• GLA Economics (GLAE) have produced a report monitoring the employment impact of mayoral programmes and initiatives. The analysis allows us to estimate the number of jobs associated with GLA Group-led activity from the start of the Mayoral term (2016). The analysis in this report represents the outcome of analysing multiple data sources and information from the GLA and functional bodies. Because of the wide and diverse nature of interventions, employment outcome data are not consistent between different project/programme areas and the conclusions of this paper should be considered with that in mind.
• GLAE were able to determine 273,200 (gross) jobs created or supported by the GLA group. In addition, 47,600 people have been recorded as being supported into work, 1,700 jobs safeguarded, and 9,500 apprenticeships created. This equates to 332,100 gross jobs created and supported, people supported into work, safeguarded jobs and apprenticeships created in total associated with Mayoral initiatives since 2016.  
• This analysis represents an initial step towards improving our approach to monitoring job creation resulting from Mayoral initiatives. The GLA will develop an internal report to identify possible improvements to existing data collection measures and facilitate the job monitoring process in the future.
• Please note that this report was amended on 18 May 2023 to reflect more up-to-date figures on the number of affordable home starts from the Affordable Housing Programme. This update reflects a change from 96,360 homes in December 2022 to 116,782 homes, as of March 2023. In addition, some terminology in the report was changed to specify clearly that the estimate provided is based on housing starts.

The data available to download from the London Datastore shows gross jobs by job type, programme and policy area.