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.
Economists’ predictions for the contraction in the UK’s GDP following Covid-19 became more pessimistic in August, according to the latest independent forecasts published by the Treasury.
The number of people claiming unemployment benefit jumped to 2.1 million in April – the first full month of lockdown – according to data from the Office for National Statistics.
Universal Credit needs an “emergency boost” to ensure it can properly support people finding themselves out of work due to the coronavirus pandemic, the TUC has said.
Companies benefiting from big UK government contracts operating in tax havens, public sector consulting bill tops £1.4bn and young and women suffer the most from unemployment in...
Thousands of unemployed or extremely low earners in Britain are missing out on financial support because they are not claiming the benefits they are entitled to, according to a think-tank.
The employment rate remained at a record high of 74.6% for the three months to January 2017, latest figures from the Office for National statistics have shown.
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.
Public sector employment has seen two quarter-on-quarter increases for the first time since 2008 according to figures published by the Office for National Statistics.
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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.
