Question follow-through · 83319
Unemployment: Young People
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what discussions he has had with the Office for National Statistics on the potential impact of trends in participation rates in the Labour Market Force on the accuracy of its estimates of the number of
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 20 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 22 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 27 Oct 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
20 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what discussions he has had with the Office for National Statistics on the potential impact of trends in participation rates in the Labour Market Force on the accuracy of its estimates of the number of
22 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
27 Oct 2025
Answer published
Official statistics on the number of young people who are not in education, employment or training aged 18-24 years old are estimated using the Labour Force Survey – a large, nationally representative household survey. These official statistics publicatio...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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