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SPICe briefings
Date published:
16 January 2026
Scottish Budget 2026-27 - Labour market and earnings
However, the composition of the economically inactive population has changed. Fewer people are economically inactive for reasons such as looking after family or home, but more people are economically inactive due to ill health.
Official Report
Meeting date:
3 December 2024
Finance and Public Administration Committee 03 December 2024
When it comes to accessing employment for people who are currently inactive and are not actively looking for work but would like work if it was available, several factors could be involved.
Last updated:
13 September 2023
Lobbying Register Annual Report 2023
These are defined by active (1,297), inactive (152) and voluntary (13) status.
Official Report
Meeting date:
23 April 2025
Meeting of the Parliament 23 April 2025
There is another aspect of all this. We may say that getting more people into economic activity would be good.
Official Report
Meeting date:
19 September 2024
Meeting of the Parliament 19 September 2024
The problem with the statistics that Douglas Ross puts to me is that, in the most recent economic inactivity data available, there was a significant fall in economic inactivity in Scotland and an increase in economic participation.
Last updated:
21 November 2022
ONS_to_COVID19 Recovery Committee 18 November 2022
In the UK, all 15-year-olds are considered to be economically inactive. They are also often presented as participation rates, rather than economic inactivity rates, whereby economic inactivity is the inverse of participation.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
12 June 2019
Labour market update: June 2019 - Executive Summary
Figure 1: Change in unemployment, employment and inactivity rates over the quarter by gender (Nov-Jan 2019 to Feb-Apr 2019) (percentage points)Regional labour market: Headline indicators for ScotlandThe following table shows the unemployment, employment and inactivity rates and the change on the previous quarter.
Official Report
Meeting date:
2 October 2025
Meeting of the Parliament 02 October 2025
Is the cabinet secretary in discussion with the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care about the creation of a neurodevelopmental pathway for adults? Many of them are economically inactive and are desperate to get the services that have been denied to them so far.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
11 September 2025
Getting the inactive active: Barriers to physical activity and potential policy solutions - Education and the School Estate
The notion and importance of early intervention is discussed by one of the research participants below:
What we're doing at that very young stage is going to shape a kind of lifelong trajectory of either active or inactive people (RP8).
I think it's about addressing inequality as early as you possibly can and thinking about the nursery years where you're going to be putting the pathway in place for a life of physical activity or not.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
10 January 2025
Getting the inactive active: Barriers to physical activity and their potential policy solutions - Conclusion
Firstly, the Health, Social Care and Sport Committee (HSCSC) called for an overarching national strategy with clear and measurable goals for achieving increased physical activity and improved physical health of Scotland's children and young people.
