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Written Question
Unemployment: Young People
Monday 7th October 2024

Asked by: Sarah Edwards (Labour - Tamworth)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment she had made of trends in the number of young people not in education, employment or training.

Answered by Alison McGovern - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)

The Office for National Statistics estimate that nearly 1 in 8 young people are not in education, employment or training.

This is 872,000 young people, a number which has risen by 74,000 over the last year.