Unemployment: Young People
(asked on 26th October 2026) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people aged 16 - 24 not in education, employment or training were disabled in the most recent period for which data is available.
This question was answered on 29th October 2026
In 2024/25, the latest year of available data, there were approximately 401,000 disabled people aged 16 -24 who were not in education, employment or training (NEET), which is 45.0% of all young people who are NEET.
The figures on the employment of disabled people was published here.