The government “simply has no idea” whether its £1.9bn Covid-19 youth employment scheme has been successful, Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee has said.
Eight new freeports announced in the UK’s March Budget are likely to create even fewer jobs than predecessor policies, says Paul Swinney from the Centre for Cities.
The gig economy can offer some useful opportunities to people who struggle to work in conventional ways. The government should make the most of them, says Ben Dobson of Reform.
Facts and figures from the May edition of Public Finance magazine on unemployment trends, Scottish attitudes to independence and the ever-increasing retirement age
The number of people in work in the UK continued to grow in the three months to December 2016, although the rate of increase has slowed, official figures have shown.
The unemployment rate remained at an 11-year low for the three months to November last year, latest figures from the Office for National Statistics have shown.
Funding and responsibility for the government’s flagship back to work scheme should be devolved to councils to allow support to be better tailored to local needs, the Local Government Association has...
The unemployment rate in the UK in the second quarter of 2016 was the lowest in more than a decade, according to figures from the Office for National Statistics released today.
The unemployment rate remained at its lowest rate in a decade at 5.1% in the three months to December, according to latest Office for National Statistics data.
The number of people out of work has fallen to the lowest level since before the 2008 recession that followed the financial crisis, according to figures published by the Office for National...
Unemployment fell by over 100,000 in the third quarter of the year with the total number of people out of work at its lowest level since the three months to July 2008, the Office for National...
Back-to-work schemes should be overhauled to ensure they focus on the needs of people with social problems and those furthest from the job market, MPs have said.
The government is to implement major reforms to unemployment support for under-25s from April 2017, with young people set to lose benefits if they turn down job offers, apprenticeships or training.
Unemployment has crept up for the second month running, with 25,000 more people out of work over the three months to June, compared with the first quarter of the year.
The number of people out of work has increased for the first time since the first three months in 2013, figures from the Office for National Statistics have revealed today.
The UK’s employment rate fell to 5.5% in the three months to March, the lowest since mid-2008, while wages rose ahead of inflation, figures from the Office for National Statistics have revealed.
The UK’s unemployment rate fell to 5.6% between December and February, the lowest proportion of people out of work since the three months to July 2008, the Office of National Statistics figures...
