Employment position improves in Cumbria

Since the Conservatives have been in government there has been a steady improvement in the numbers in work and fall in the number of people out of work throughout the country, for men and women alike, for younger and older workers alike.

Most of the increase in employment is in permanent full-time jobs.

In Cumbria the fall in the number of people claiming benefit varies from the significant - 10% in Workington - to the dramatic - 55% in Westmorland and Lonsdale. Here are the figures by constituency:







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Jim said…
i always wonder how these figures are worked.

You see i could start my own town, and lets say it has a population of 10 people in 2010. now 1 of them claims unemployment benefit, 1 is a student, 2 are OAPs, and 6 work.
I have 10% of the people on unemployment benefits.

now in 2017 the population is 100. 3 people claim unleployment benefit, 12 are students, 38 are OAPs and 47 work.

so I have reduced unemplyment benefit claiments (as its now 3% not 10%) but, i have not because in 2010 I only had one person claiming now i have 3 so its increased 150% you see.

So I think the only fair way to state employment figures are the Number of people in full time work, (either employed full time, or full time self emplyoyed) then express that as a percentage of overall UK population.
11:02 am
Chris Whiteside said…
That's certainly a valid point of view. And if it is the yardstick you use, it is a yardstick on which the UK economy is performing very well - I don't have the Copeland figures instantly to hand but I do know that in almost every part of the country the number of people in work is at a record high.
5:44 pm
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