Tobias Ellwood – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Work and Pensions

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Tobias Ellwood on 2014-06-17.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent estimate he has made of the level of youth unemployment in (a) the UK and (b) Bournemouth East constituency; and if he will make a statement.

Esther McVey

Excluding full-time students, nationally there were 565,000 unemployed under-25s in February-April 2014, a fall of nearly 100,000 since the 2010 election. Latest figures show 5,700 unemployed under-25s in Bournemouth East in January-December 2013, a fall of 900 compared to the same period in 2010.