Universal Credit: Young People
(asked on 27th October 2020) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many (1) 16, and (2) 17, year olds are unemployed and claiming Universal Credit.
This question was answered on 10th November 2020
The latest available information, showing the number of 16 and 17 year olds who are claiming Universal Credit and are not in employment, is given in the table below.
Number of 16 and 17 year olds claiming Universal Credit by Employment indicator, Great Britain, August 2020:
Age | Not in employment | In employment | Total |
16 | 1,499 | 64 | 1,560 |
17 | 7,909 | 891 | 8,799 |
Source: People on Universal Credit, Stat-Xplore, Department for Work and Pensions
Notes:
- Statistical disclosure control has been applied to this table to avoid the release of confidential data. Totals may not sum due to the disclosure control applied.
- A count date of the second Thursday of the month is used when calculating the statistics for the people on Universal Credit.
- The employment indicator is available from November 2013 onwards. To allow sufficient time for earnings information to be gathered on all claimants, figures for the latest month in the series will not be available until the next release.