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

ConservativeWest 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 McGovern
The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.