1 in 5 young people can’t find a job under Labour
75% increase in unemployment
13 jobseekers chasing every vacancy
Responding to the latest unemployment figures which reveal that youth unemployment is at a record high, with 1 in 5 young people unable to find a job, in one year a 75% increase in unemployment and with 13 jobseekers chasing every vacancy Janice Small, PPC for Batley and Spen said:
“These are yet more grim figures for Batley and Spen and Britain as a whole. Labour has written off a generation of young people with one in five now unable to find a job.
“ Today’s figures also reveal more alarming trends of worklessness in the economy. More and more people are giving up looking for a job, economic inactivity has hit record rates, and the number of Incapacity Benefit claims are rising.
“Labour need to wake up and adopt our plans to Get Britain Working as a matter of urgency. In particular they need to offer more support to young people by taking up our proposals to create hundreds of thousands additional apprenticeships and training places to prevent a generation being cast adrift because of Gordon Brown’s recession.”
ENDS
Notes to editors:
In one year there has been a 75% increase in unemployment in Batley and Spen – see attached Excel sheet.
· One in five young people can’t find a job. The youth unemployment rate for 16-24 year olds has reached 19.8 per cent, the highest rate since records began in 1992.
· Two and a half million unemployed . Unemployment increased by 30,000 over the quarter to reach 2.46 million.
· Record Economic Inactivity. The number of people classed as economically inactive, reached a record high of eight million after a 41,000 increase over the latest quarter. The inactivity rate is now over 21 per cent of the working age population and the total is the highest since records began in 1971.
· Highest level of long term unemployed since 1997. The number of people unemployed for more than 12 months increased by 71,000 over the quarter to reach 618,000, the highest figure since the three months to November 1997.
· Highest level of Jobseeker’s since 1997. The number of people claiming Jobseeker’s Allowance (the claimant count) in October 2009 increased by 12,900 on the month to reach 1.64 million, the highest number of claimants since April 1997.
· Record low in vacancies. The number of vacanciesin the three months to October 2009 was 428,000, the lowest figure since records for this series began in 2001.
· Full time employment falling . Full-time employment fell by 80,000, to reach 21.26 million, while part-time employment increased by 86,000 to reach a record high of 7.66 million.
· Record number can’t find a full time job . There were 997,000 employees and self-employed people working part-time because they did not find a full-time job. This is the highest figure since records for this series began in 1992 and it is up 30,000 on the previous quarter.
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