You asked
Could you supply me with statistics on the number of people in the UK who have never worked by age group, as well as providing a regional breakdown of the people aged 65 and over who have never worked?
We said
Information on people who have never worked can be obtained from the Social Surveys team. Special tabulations of data are available to order (subject to legal frameworks, disclosure control, resources and agreements of costs, where appropriate). Such enquiries should be made to: socialsurveys@ons.gov.uk We recommend that you contact the Social Surveys team directly in order to discuss your data requirements in more detail.
As this information is already available to you via this route ONS considers that S21(1) applies to this request and the information does not have to be supplied under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act. S21(1) is an absolute exemption and no consideration of the public interest test needs to be applied.