Question follow-through · 11392

Unemployment

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate her Department has made of the total number of people of working age currently out of work.

answeredDepartment for Work and Pensions

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Answering body: Department for Work and Pensions
Tabled: 28 Oct 2024
Target answer date: 30 Oct 2024
Answer: 31 Oct 2024 · 3 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

28 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate her Department has made of the total number of people of working age currently out of work.
30 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
31 Oct 2024
Answer published
Official statistics for the number of people unemployed and economically inactive are published each month by the independent Office for National Statistics (ONS), estimated using the Labour Force Survey. The ONS headline labour market statistics define w...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

Later records

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