Question follow-through · 84185
Unemployment
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what data his Department uses, other than the Labour Market Force survey, to estimate the population of people who are not in education, employment or training.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 22 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 27 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 29 Oct 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
22 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what data his Department uses, other than the Labour Market Force survey, to estimate the population of people who are not in education, employment or training.
27 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
29 Oct 2025
Answer published
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) uses multiple data sources to inform our view of how young people are performing in the labour market and whether young people are not in education, employment or training (NEET). These include statistics based o...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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