Unemployment
(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 comparative assessment he has made of rates of unemployment in the UK and other European countries.
This question was answered on 17th October 2017
The UK has the joint 4th lowest unemployment rate in the EU - better than France, the Netherlands and Denmark.
The UK’s unemployment rate (4.3%) is the lowest in 42 years and is less than half that of the Euro area (9.1%) and 3.3% points below the EU28 average (7.6%).