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Employment: Young People

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to help young universal credit claimants into work.

answeredDepartment for Work and Pensions

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Answering body: Department for Work and Pensions
Tabled: 11 Dec 2024
Target answer date: 16 Dec 2024
Answer: 19 Dec 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

11 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to help young universal credit claimants into work.
16 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 Dec 2024
Answer published
Our plan to go further, as laid out in the Get Britain Working White Paper, is critical to growing the economy. This includes implementing a new national jobs and career service to help get more people into work alongside a Youth Guarantee, meaning more q...

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