Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 41955
Social Security Benefits: Long Term Unemployed People
Tabled: 27 March 2025
Answered: 2 April 2025
Question
Nick Timothy
Conservative — West Suffolk
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many benefit claimant households included people who have (a) not worked for (i) five, (ii) ten, (iii) twenty and (iv) more than twenty years and (b) never worked in each year since 2010 in the late
Answer
Alison McGovernThe information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.