Question follow-through · 99700
Employment: Older People
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people aged 66 and over are estimated in 2025 to be in (a) full time employment, and (b) part time employment.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Cabinet Office
- Tabled
- 15 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 18 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 18 Dec 2025 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Draft Code of Practice on Electronic and Workplace Ballots for Statutory Trade Union Ballots · 15 Jul 2026
- Draft Trade Unions (Permissible Means of Voting) and Employment Rights (Unfair Dismissal) (Amendment) Order 2026 · 15 Jul 2026
- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 5 · 1 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
15 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people aged 66 and over are estimated in 2025 to be in (a) full time employment, and (b) part time employment.
18 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
18 Dec 2025
Answer published
The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority. A response to the Hon gentleman’s Parliamentary Question of 15th of December is attached.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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