Department for Work and Pensions written question – answered am ar 7 Rhagfyr 2018.
Geraint Davies
Labour/Co-operative, Gorllewin Abertawe
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the cost to the public purse of youth unemployment.
Alok Sharma
The Minister of State, Department for Work and Pensions
The Department has not made an estimate of the overall costs of youth unemployment.
The most recent data (July-September 2018) from the ONS Labour Force Survey shows that youth unemployment is at a near record low of 476,000 – down by nearly 50% (463,000) since the 2010 election.
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