Youth Unemployment: Autumn Budget 2025

Part of Treasury – in the House of Commons at on 10 March 2026.

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Photo of Torsten Bell Torsten Bell The Parliamentary Secretary, HM Treasury, The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Work and Pensions

Last week, the Office for Budget Responsibility set out its updated forecast for the UK economy, including for unemployment to peak this year before falling in each and every year thereafter. Longer-term problems for young people have been building in our labour market for far too long, with employment rates that are too low and levels of those not in education, employment or training soaring in the last Parliament. We will not allow a generation of young people to be left behind, which is why the Government have committed £820 million for the youth guarantee, strengthening employment support and guaranteeing jobs for the long-term unemployed.