Question follow-through · 3976
Employment: Young People
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the implications for her policies of trends in the number of young people in employment in the last 12 months.
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 3 Sept 2024
- Target answer date
- 5 Sept 2024
- Answer
- 10 Sept 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
3 Sept 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the implications for her policies of trends in the number of young people in employment in the last 12 months.
5 Sept 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
10 Sept 2024
Answer published
The number of employed 16–24-year-olds has fallen by 183,000 in the last 12 months, driven by higher economic inactivity. DWP places a strong emphasis on developing policies that support young people into employment, whilst also acknowledging that their n...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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