{"id":47673,"date":"2014-09-17T08:43:21","date_gmt":"2014-09-17T08:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=d737b2bd9f83e6c1f5dfa9d4e3251cf3"},"modified":"2014-09-17T08:50:50","modified_gmt":"2014-09-17T08:50:50","slug":"press-release-welsh-secretary-responds-to-labour-market-statistics-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=47673","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Welsh Secretary responds to Labour Market Statistics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Updated:<\/em> Added translation<\/p>\n<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Over the last year, the total number of people out of work in Wales has fallen by 22,000.  <\/p>\n<p>In August, youth unemployment  fell  by 600.   The number of people claiming Jobseekers Allowance also fell, by 2,300. This marks the 18th consecutive monthly  drop in the claimant count in  Wales and is  the largest single fall since 1997.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"secretary-of-state-for-wales-stephen-crabb-commented-\">Secretary of State for Wales Stephen Crabb commented :<\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p>As a government we are working hard to get more people from all walks of life back into work. It is particularly encouraging to see unemployment amongst young people in Wales continuing to fall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">There remain a great many challenges facing our economy. This is why it is more crucial than ever that we stick  to our long-term economic plan to create the right conditions for growth and jobs in Wales.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He said that business confidence was key to enabling this to happen, citing a survey published this week which showed a sharp rise in Welsh SMEs that are planning to increase capital investment in the next 12 months.<\/p>\n<p>View the latest statistics <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ons.gov.uk\/ons\/rel\/subnational-labour\/regional-labour-market-statistics\/september-2014\/stb-regional-labour-market-september-2014.html\">here<\/a><br \/>\n\u202c<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest Labour Market Statistics released today show that unemployment  remained unchanged in Wales over the last quarter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47673"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}