Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate his Department has made of the level of people currently defined as economically inactive.

Working age inactivity is estimated by the independent Office for National Statistics (ONS).

The latest statistics can be found here:

https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/employmentandemployeetypes/bulletins/uklabourmarket/august2017