Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will take steps with Cabinet colleagues to help improve the (a) quantity and (b) quality of data on veterans in the labour market.

Official data on the labour market is the responsibility of the independent Office for National Statistics, who regularly publish this data here.

The ONS are currently undertaking a project to transform the Labour Force Survey – the primary source of labour market information in the UK, further details are published here.

As part of the LFS transformation the ONS have been reviewing the questions they ask households; as well as taking a new approach to surveying the public that gives them greater flexibility too more quickly change the questions they ask households, to reflect the key needs of the day.

Data on veterans is currently being collected by the ONS on an experimental basis as part of the Transformed Labour Force Survey (TLFS). The TLFS data is under review, and it is expected that the TLFS will become available for wider analysis in the third quarter of 2024.