IRRV Alert - week ending 27th February 2021

News

Reports

People claiming unemployment benefits by constituency (23 February 2021)

 

 

 

 

 

People claiming unemployment benefits by constituency

Research Briefing

Published Tuesday, 23 February, 2021

This paper provides figures for the number of people claiming unemployment benefits (the “claimant count”) by parliamentary constituency, as well as a summary of the latest labour market statistics for the UK as a whole.

Documents to download

For further analysis of the emerging effect of coronavirus on the labour market, see Library briefing Coronavirus: Impact on the labour market.

This paper provides figures for the number of people claiming unemployment related benefits by parliamentary constituency, as well as a summary of the latest labour market statistics for the UK as a whole.

In the latest quarter there was a further fall in employment and a rise in unemployment, with the unemployment rate at its highest level since early 2016. The annual growth in unemployment is at its highest since 2009. Average pay continues to grow at a faster rate than inflation.

Key figures

  • In October-December 2020, the number of people aged 16+ in employment was 32.39 million, 114,000 fewer than the previous quarter and 541,000 fewer than the previous year. The employment rate was 75.0%, down from 75.3% in the previous quarter.
  • The UK unemployment rate rose to 5.1%, up from 4.8% in the previous quarter. Unemployment levels rose by 121,000 on the quarter to 1.74 million.
  • 8.66 million people aged 16-64 were economically inactive, little changed from the previous quarter. The inactivity rate was 20.9%, unchanged on the quarter.
  • Redundancies increased by 30,000 on the quarter and 235,000 on the year to 343,000.
  • Average wages increased in real terms in the three months to December 2020, with an annual change of 4.1% including bonuses and 3.5% excluding bonuses.
  • The claimant count decreased slightly between December 2020 and January 2021 to 2.6 million; Since March 2020, when the lockdown began, the claimant count has increased by 1.4 million, but the majority of this increase was seen at the start of the first lockdown in March-May 2020.

The full briefing paper will be published later today.


 


IRRV Software

Copyright © 2025 · All Rights Reserved · Institute of Revenues Rating and Valuation
Warning: Undefined array key "User_id" in /home/irrvnet/public_html/forumalert/inc_footer.php on line 4