Former Labour Cabinet minister Alan Milburn said that the total was more than the country spends on education each year.

Alan Milburn, the Blair-era health secretary, is set to publish a review into young Neets on Thursday, looking over welfare and recruitment.

It comes as ex-Labour Cabinet minister Alan Milburn publishes his first major government-commissioned report into the number of ‘Neets’ - those not in education, employment, or…