Get Britain Working: Labour Market Insights
These official statistics in development cover labour market insights from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).
This collection contains:
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quarterly updates for the Universal Credit (UC) into-work rate, including a geographical breakdown
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employment sustainability and worklessness of UC customers
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English regional rates of young people not in education, employment or training (NEET)
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new labour market insights from DWP analysis
Quarterly data are published in October, January, April and July. The exact publication dates for the monthly and quarterly releases are listed in the statistics release calendar.
Next release
The Get Britain Working: Labour Market Insights October 2026 publication will be released at 9:30am on 29 October 2026. This publication will include labour market official statistics in development covering:
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into-work rates for people on UC in the ‘Searching for work’ conditionality regime
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employment sustainability and worklessness of UC customers
- English regional rates of young people who are NEET
- Geographical analysis of labour markets
Feedback
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Updates to this page
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Added latest release 'Get Britain Working: Labour Market Insights July 2026' to page and updated 'details' section with information on the October release.
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Removed feedback information for non media enquiries to prevent press enquiries being incorrectly directed. Added the Labour Market Insights April 2026 to the page. Updated the 'Next release' section to show information about the upcoming July 2026 release.
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Added a note about a change to the "Measure of worklessness of Universal Credit 'Searching for work' customers" statistic in the forthcoming Get Britain Working: Labour Market Insights release on 30 April 2026.
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Added information about the next release of the Get Britain Working: Labour Market Insights statistics on 30 April 2026.
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Added 'Get Britain Working: Labour Market Insights January 2026' as latest release
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