Question follow-through · 83321
Young People: Unemployment
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department applies the same methodology for the number of people not in employment, education or training who are (a) 16 to 18 and (b) 18 to 24 years of age.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 20 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 22 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 31 Oct 2025 · 11 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
20 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department applies the same methodology for the number of people not in employment, education or training who are (a) 16 to 18 and (b) 18 to 24 years of age.
22 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
31 Oct 2025
Answer published
The department publishes statistics on those not in education, employment or training (NEET) for England from the labour force survey (LFS) for young people aged 16-24. These statistics are accessible at: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.u...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Education: Finance
21 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of providing additional intervention funding for the provision of education re-engagement programmes for 16 to 18 year olds who have defaulted their initia
Schools: Finance
21 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of providing in year growth funding to schools affected by additional starts relating to provision intended to (a) prevent and (b) reduce the number of you
Special Educational Needs: Unemployment
21 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate her Department has made of the number of young people with education, health and care plans who are not in employment, education or training.
Special Educational Needs: Unemployment
21 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department plans to take to help re-engage young people with education, health and care plans who are not in employment, education or training.
Unpaid Work: Young People
21 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of introducing supported internship funding arrangements for young people aged between 16 and 19 who require additional support to enter the
Unemployment
22 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how her Department uses data on people who are not in education, employment or training (NEET) to develop policy in the context of changes in the number of people who are NEET.
Student Wastage
22 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential implications for her policies of trends in the number of students who are at risk of being withdrawn from their study programme for not attending their GCSE retak
Further Education
24 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to help further education colleges support young people who are not in education, employment or training through (a) flexible funding arrangements and (b) supporting collabor
Physical Education: Obesity
20 Feb 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of changes to funding for physical education and sports on child obesity.
Financial Services: Adult Education
20 Feb 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans her Department has for improving provision of financial education as part of the adult education curriculum.
Written question 29937
15 Sept 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what criteria will determine whether a child or young person receives support through an Individual Support Plan; and what steps she will take to ensure consistency in access to that support between local areas
Written question 29938
15 Sept 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what criteria will be used to determine which children and young people will be eligible for an Education, Health and Care Plan under the proposed reformed SEND system.