Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what (a) recent assessment she has made of trends in the level of unemployment amongst 25 to 30 year olds and (b) steps her Department is taking to reduce unemployment among that age group in (i) Coventry North East constituency and (ii) Coventry.

Universal Credit is an in-work benefit that supports claimants of all ages, and through our Plan for Jobs, DWP also provides a range of support which can be accessed by people aged 25-30, including the Job Finding Support Service(JFS), Job Entry Targeted Support(JETS), and Sector-Based Work Academy Programmes(SWAPS). The Restart programme will also be available for people who are long term unemployed later this year.

The Department regularly publishes statistics on the Alternative Claimant Count, and these are available by age and local authority and constituency here: https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/

Guidance on how to extract the information required can be found at: https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started.html