Unemployment
Commons · Question 83279 · Tabled 20 Oct 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions · Official record
Answered 27 Oct 2025
Question
Asked by Mark Garnier
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department plans to continue to use the Labour Market Force survey as the basis for estimating the number of people categorised as NEET.
Answer
Answered by Dame Diana Johnson, 27 Oct 2025
Official statistics on the number of young people who are not in education, employment or training aged 18-24 years old are estimated using the Labour Force Survey - a large, nationally representative household survey. These official statistics publicatio...