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Britain has a joint record high employment rate of 75.6% with 32.39 million people now in work according to the latest official statistics.
First published during the 2016 to 2019 May Conservative government
How the government assesses the number of people claiming unemployment-related benefits is to be overhauled to provide accuracy to the statistics.
One of the UK’s largest recruitment websites Universal Jobmatch is to be re-named ‘Find a Job’.
Official figures released today show that the unemployment rate remains at a near-record low of 4.4%, with the employment rate at a near-record high of 75.2%.
Recipients of Universal Credit full service who are self-employed can now receive business mentoring if their earnings are low.
Unemployment is at just 4.3%, the lowest level since 1975 – and official figures have shown a fall in the unemployment rate every month in 2017.
The number of households where no one is working has fallen by 49,000 in just a year according to official figures released today.
Official figures show that unemployment has remained at 4.3%, the lowest rate since 1975.
The number of children in the UK living in long-term workless households is 1.1 million, down 92,000 on the year.
Official employment figures released today show that unemployment is at 4.3%, the lowest since 1975.
The employment rate is at a record high of 75.3% with a record 32.14 million people in work.
Entrepreneurial jobseekers have launched nearly 85,000 new businesses through a government scheme to boost self-employment and drive innovation.
First published during the 2015 to 2016 Cameron Conservative government
New figures released today (13 April 2016) show that more people from ethnic minority backgrounds are in work since records began in 2001.
Parents on Universal Credit will now be able to claim back 85% of their childcare costs when they move into work – up from 70%.
More than 80,000 businesses have been set up by jobseekers through the New Enterprise Allowance.
Through the Work Programme, a total of 503,000 jobseekers have found work lasting 3 months or longer.
Private sector employment over 26 million, unemployment rate at 5.1% and the claimant count at its lowest level in over 40 years.
Business Secretary Sajid Javid has said that businesses must do more to help BME workers access the labour market.
The majority of entrepreneurial jobseekers who became their own boss thanks to a government scheme are still in business, more than a year after launching their start-up.
Employment Minister Priti Patel launches the £2.5 billion European Social Fund (ESF) programme for England at Styal prison in Cheshire.
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