Question follow-through · 28070
Unemployment: Young People
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate the department has made of the number and proportion of young people who are not in education, employment or training who have dyslexia.
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 8 Sept 2026
- Target answer date
- 10 Sept 2026
- Answer
- 16 Sept 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
8 Sept 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate the department has made of the number and proportion of young people who are not in education, employment or training who have dyslexia.
10 Sept 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Sept 2026
Answer published
The independent Office for National Statistics estimate that there are 981,000 16-24 year-olds not in education, employment and training, down 30,000 (0.5% points) on the quarter. The DWP does not hold data on what proportion of young people not in educat...
Official data retrieved 1 Oct 2026.
Later records
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