Unemployment
(asked on 30th 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 north east and other UK regions.
This question was answered on 7th November 2017
The unemployment rate in the North East is 5.8%. The rate has fallen by 1.0 percentage point over the last year, the third largest fall of any region, and by 3.8 percentage points since 2010. The unemployment level has fallen by 46,000 (38%) since 2010.