Employment
(asked on 9th October 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent estimate he has made of trends in employment.
This question was answered on 12th October 2017
The UK labour market is the strongest it has been for years. Over the past year, the number of people in employment has increased by 379,000. The employment rate now stands at a record 75.3%. The unemployment rate is at 4.3%, the lowest rate since 1975.