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Date answered:
23 September 2025
S6W-39749
They also show 34.6% of inactive people aged 16 to 64 in Scotland gave their reason for being inactive as “long-term sick or disabled”, compared to 28.4% for the UK.Reducing economic inactivity can have economic benefits.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
12 January 2024
The declining disability employment gap in Scotland:Understanding the reasons behind the increasing number of disabled people in employment
They also have higher rates of economic inactivity than other types of disability, and those that are inactive are less likely to say that they want work (Chart 9).
Last updated:
16 June 2023
Minutes of the meeting held on 17 March 2023
And under the subscription crofters can get help with filling the SAF, for example.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
20 March 2019
Labour market update: March 2019 - Executive Summary
Scotland currently has the fourth highest inactivity rate of the regions and nations of the UK.
Last updated:
2 June 2023
PE2018_B
It is an opportunity to create a safer, healthier and active Scotland. Our message is simple.
Official Report
Meeting date:
28 April 2022
COVID-19 Recovery Committee 28 April 2022
However, we have a slightly larger economically inactive population. The Government is trying to expand our working-age population by working with people who are currently economically inactive to try to find the means to make them economically active.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
16 June 2017
Labour market update June 2017 - Constituency data: economic inactivityrate
Constituency data: economic inactivity rate
The constituency data for Scotland comes from the Annual Population Survey (APS).
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
11 November 2024
S6W-30822
To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to support economically inactive people enter the job market. To address inactivity, it is essential to support those who are currently inactive – not in paid work and not actively looking for work – through employability and other interventions that seek to support a return to the labour market, and also provide preventative in-work support, for instance through occupational health services and retraining/upskilling, which reduces the likelihood of people becoming economically inactive.No One Left Behind is our shared approach to delivering an all-age, place-based, person-centred model of employability support in Scotland.
Official Report
Meeting date:
6 January 2026
Meeting of the Parliament 06 January 2026
I say that as a parent of two boys who have been unable to get to school and nursery. What support will the First Minister and the Scottish Government provide if the situation goes on for a prolonged period and pupils cannot get into school to learn at the start of the new term?
SPICe briefings
Date published:
25 August 2017
Brexit: Citizens' Rights and the Withdrawal Agreement - Council negotiating position
Retrieved from <a href="http://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/meetings/gac/2017/05/directives-for-the-negotiation-xt21016-ad01re02_en17_pdf/" target="_blank">http://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/meetings/gac/2017/05/directives-for-the-negotiation-xt21016-ad01re02_en17_pdf/</a> [accessed 15 August 2017]:
A definition of the persons to be covered - the scope should be the same as in Directives 2004/38 and 883/2004 (i.e. both economically active...
