Question follow-through · 900510
Unemployment: Young People
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment she had made of trends in the number of young people not in education, employment or training.
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 12 Sept 2024
- Target answer date
- 7 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 7 Oct 2024 · 25 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
12 Sept 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment she had made of trends in the number of young people not in education, employment or training.
7 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
7 Oct 2024
Answer published
The Office for National Statistics estimate that nearly 1 in 8 young people are not in education, employment or training. This is 872,000 young people, a number which has risen by 74,000 over the last year.
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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