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ONS Annual Population Survey (APS) statistics for July 2023 to June 2024 estimate that 32.0% of inactive people in Scotland were inactive due to being long-term sick or disabled.
If the lowest level of economic inactivity to which we could ever hope to get is 15 per cent—which still is a large number, because a lot of people genuinely cannot be economically active—a fall of 0.8 per cent in one year from 22.1 to 21.3 per cent is a very big one.
We’re contributing to Scotland’s labour market success story, working to support economically inactive and unemployed people. Just over 3,000 people classed as economically inactive have used our services in recent years.
During the summer, people are more active and get out and about more. In winter, when it is slippy, dark and cold, is that a barrier to people getting out, and do activity levels drop?
The table below shows the yearly number of registrants since 12 March 2018. Inactive registrants It is also possible for registrants to become ‘inactive’ in line with requirements set out in Section 12 of the Lobbying (Scotland) Act 2016.