Question follow-through · 98327
Employment: Young People
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what safeguards will be put in place to help ensure that jobs under the new youth employment guarantee will pay the living wage and lead to long-term secure employment.
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 8 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 10 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 16 Jan 2026 · 39 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
8 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what safeguards will be put in place to help ensure that jobs under the new youth employment guarantee will pay the living wage and lead to long-term secure employment.
10 Dec 2025
Target answer date
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16 Jan 2026
Answer published
Too many young people are spending the first years of their adult life out of work or education. Long periods of unemployment in these early years have lifelong negative impacts.As part of the Youth Guarantee, we are breaking the cycle of unemployment by ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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