Question follow-through · 14009
Unemployment: Young People
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of establishing a joint taskforce with the retail industry to reduce youth unemployment.
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 29 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 2 Jul 2026
- Answer
- 6 Jul 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
29 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of establishing a joint taskforce with the retail industry to reduce youth unemployment.
2 Jul 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
6 Jul 2026
Answer published
With over one million young people not in education, employment and training, this Government will not leave an entire generation of young people behind. The Government is investing an additional £2.5 billion over the next three years into the Youth Guara...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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