Question follow-through · 901816

Unemployment: North Durham

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the number of young people out of work, education and training in North Durham constituency.

answeredDepartment for Work and Pensions

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Answering body
Department for Work and Pensions
Tabled
10 Dec 2024
Target answer date
16 Dec 2024
Answer
16 Dec 2024 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 10 Dec 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the number of young people out of work, education and training in North Durham constituency.

  2. 16 Dec 2024

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 16 Dec 2024

    Answer published

    We published new analysis alongside the Get Britain Working White Paper which shows that there are 45,000 young people out of work, education and training across the North East.Those young people are being failed.The data is not robust enough to be broken...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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