Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of effect of the covid-19 outbreak on the level of employment of 16 to 25-year olds.

Estimates of the number of people who are employed are compiled by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) using the Labour Force Survey (LFS).

The latest estimate for the number of 16-24 year olds who are in employment is 3.537 million (June to August 2020), compared with 3.792 million for the period from January to March 2020.

All estimates used in this answer are publicly available on the ONS website (https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/employmentandemployeetypes/datasets/summaryoflabourmarketstatistics).