Part-time Employment: Young People
(asked on 16th May 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people between 16 and 24 years old were in part-time employment in (a) 2012 and (b) 2017.
This question was answered on 21st May 2018
The latest official data available from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) estimates that 1.41 million 16 to 24 year olds were working part-time from January-December 2017. This represented 36.6% of 16-24 year olds in employment, down from 1.45 million young people working part time in January-December 2012 (39.9% of 16-24 year olds in employment).