Unemployment: Great Grimsby

(asked on 14th May 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the trends in the level of unemployment in Great Grimsby constituency.


Answered by
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Alok Sharma
COP26 President (Cabinet Office)
This question was answered on 20th May 2019

The number of people claiming unemployment-related benefits in Great Grimsby has fallen by 45% in the last six years and stands at 3,406 as at February 2019.

Across the local authority of North East Lincolnshire, and the unemployment rate for North East Lincolnshire has fallen from 11.5% in 2010 to 6.4% in 2018.

The rate of unemployment across the UK is at its lowest since 1974.

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