Unemployment: Young People
(asked on 20th January 2015) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment he has made of trends in youth unemployment.
This question was answered on 26th January 2015
Youth unemployment has fallen 175,000 since 2010, and the youth claimant count is the lowest since the 1970s.
In Wolverhampton South West, the youth claimant count has nearly halved since 2010 – falling by over 400.