Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the reasons for the change in the level of youth unemployment in (a) Coventry North East constituency, (b) Coventry and (c) the West Midlands in the last 12 months.
The information that is available is in the table below. No assessment has been made of changes in levels in youth unemployment. Links to the data can be found below the table:
Alternative Claimant Count
| Feb 18 | Feb 19 | Feb 20 | Feb 21 |
a (i) Coventry North East | 3,161 | 3,255 | 3,654 | 7,361 |
b (ii) Coventry | 7,332 | 7,546 | 8,364 | 17,235 |
c (iii) West Midlands | 137,592 | 141,923 | 149,959 | 273,241 |
Source: DWP Stat-Xplore
Here are the links to the Nomis data available for Coventry and for West Midlands.