Question follow-through · 900511
Unemployment: Tees Valley
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment she has made of trends in the level of economic inactivity in Teesside.
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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 has made of trends in the level of economic inactivity in Teesside.
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 110 thousand working-age people in Tees Valley are economically inactive. This is similar to the pre-pandemic level. This government has ambitious plans to devolve more power to local areas to help more peo...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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