Lord Baker of Dorking: DWP: Written Answers (3)

Written Question

Unemployment: Young People

Monday 23rd November 2020

Asked by: Lord Baker of Dorking (Conservative - Life peer)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many 19-year-olds were registered as unemployed in the months of (1) June, (2) July, and (3) August.

Answered by Baroness Stedman-Scott

The Office for National Statistics classify people as unemployed if, in response to the Labour Force Survey / Annual Population Survey, a person states that they are without a job; have been actively seeking work within the last four weeks and are available to start work within the next two weeks. This is not directly related to being in receipt of unemployment-related benefit.

The ONS do not publish data on the number of 19 year olds whom are unemployed

Written Question

Unemployment Benefits: Young People

Monday 23rd November 2020

Asked by: Lord Baker of Dorking (Conservative - Life peer)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many (1) 16, (2) 17, (3) 18, and (4) 19, year-olds registered for unemployment-related benefits in the months of (a) September, and (b) October.

Answered by Baroness Stedman-Scott

Numbers of people claiming unemployment-related benefits by single year age band are publicly available through the department’s Stat Xplore website.

The table below shows the number of people nationally aged 16, 17, 18 and 19 years old in the Universal Credit (UC) searching for work conditionality group – for people claiming UC whom are closest to the labour market - in September and October 2020.

Age	September 2020	October 2020
16	861	940
17	4630	4563
18	49828	51602
19	70483	71766
Total	125795	128878

The number of people nationally aged 16, 17, 18 and 19 years old and are claiming Jobseekers’ Allowance – a legacy unemployment-related benefit - are published quarterly by DWP on Stat Xplore. However, the latest data available is May 2020.


	Age	May 2020
	16	Negligible or nil number of claimants
	17	25
	18	452
	19	972
	Total	1450

Written Question

Unemployment: Young People

Monday 2nd November 2020

Asked by: Lord Baker of Dorking (Conservative - Life peer)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many (1) 16 year olds, (2) 17 year olds, and (3) 18 year olds, have registered as unemployed in the last three months.

Answered by Baroness Stedman-Scott

The number of people who registered for unemployment related benefits are published as part of the Alternative Claimant Count and are available by age.

Alternative Claimant Count – Monthly On Flows, June to August 2020, UK

Age	June	July	August
16	567	457	198
17	2,026	1,699	604
18	11,962	11,066	8,082

Source: Alternative Claimant Count - On Flows

Notes:

Statistical disclosure control has been applied to this table to avoid the release of confidential data.
On-flows are defined as the number of people claiming unemployment related benefits in month t, who were not claiming in the previous month (t-1).
Figures are standardised to control for 4 and 5 week counting periods.

This data is published and available at: https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk