Official Statistics

Get Britain Working: Labour Market Insights April 2026

Labour market official statistics in development covering into-work rates for people on Universal Credit in the ‘Searching for work’ conditionality regime, English regional rates of people not in education, employment or training (NEET), an update to the Get Britain Working outcome metrics and new statistics covering skills and employment across industrial sectors.

Documents

Details

This report contains statistics on: 

  • the into-work rate for UC customers in the ‘Searching for work’ conditionality regime, including breakdowns by geography, age, duration on UC and highest level of educational qualification  

  • sustained employment of Universal Credit customers 

  • worklessness of Universal Credit customers 

  • young people who are not in education, employment or training (NEET) across England’s regions and by local labour market type 

  • Get Britain Working outcome metrics 

  • highest level of educational qualification for UC customers 

  • flows between industrial sectors for UC customer 

  • time since last employment by previous and new industrial sector of employment for UC customers 

We have also published data tables in open document spreadsheet (ODS) format and a background information and methodology report. 

Pre-release access  

In addition to staff who are responsible for the production and quality assurance of the statistics, up to 24-hour pre-release access is provided to ministers and other officials. We publish the job titles and organisations of the people who have been granted up to 24-hour pre-release access

Contact 

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Updates to this page

Published 30 April 2026

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