Question follow-through · 1893
Unemployment: West Midlands
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of trends in the level of unemployment in the under 25s in the West Midlands.
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 18 May 2026
- Target answer date
- 20 May 2026
- Answer
- 27 May 2026 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
18 May 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of trends in the level of unemployment in the under 25s in the West Midlands.
20 May 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
27 May 2026
Answer published
The ONS publish labour market statistics for 16–24-year-olds in the West Midlands. These can be found here: HI05 Regional labour market: headline indicators for the West Midlands - Office for National Statistics.This government will not leave an entire ge...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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