Question follow-through · 24855
Unemployment: Young People
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of excluding people aged 25 to 30 who are not in education, employment or training from NEET statistics on the identification of labour market disenga
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 28 Aug 2026
- Target answer date
- 2 Sept 2026
- Answer
- 8 Sept 2026 · 11 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
28 Aug 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of excluding people aged 25 to 30 who are not in education, employment or training from NEET statistics on the identification of labour market disenga
2 Sept 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 Sept 2026
Answer published
The independent Office for National Statistics (ONS) is responsible for the definition of those who are not in education, employment or training (NEET). The ONS uses the Labour Force Survey to collect data on the number of NEETs in the UK. The quarterly r...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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