Unemployment: Young People
Commons · Question 83319 · 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, what discussions he has had with the Office for National Statistics on the potential impact of trends in participation rates in the Labour Market Force on the accuracy of its estimates of the number of
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...