{"id":61552,"date":"2015-09-16T08:40:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-16T08:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=132691b5aed60984a1020e83e3fde0e1"},"modified":"2015-09-16T08:40:00","modified_gmt":"2015-09-16T08:40:00","slug":"press-release-employment-market-buoyant-as-wales-sees-fastest-return-to-work-in-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=61552","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Employment market buoyant as Wales sees fastest return to work in UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Today\u2019s Labour Market Statistics show employment is up 25,000 on the quarter with nearly three quarters of the working population (71.2 per cent) now in a job.<\/p>\n<p>The statistics also show:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Largest increase in return to work on the year across all UK nations and regions.<\/li>\n<li>Economic inactivity down 22,000 on the quarter &#8211; now back below one million (995,000).<\/li>\n<li>2nd largest increase on the quarter of all UK nations and regions<\/li>\n<li>The claimant count increased 300 in August over the month, and fell 8,700 on the year<\/li>\n<li>The youth claimant count fell by 3,100 over the year<\/li>\n<li>Unemployment marginally up by 4,000 on the quarter with a rate of 6.5 per cent \u2013 similar to the UK national picture<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 id=\"secretary-of-state-for-wales-stephen-crabb-said\">Secretary of State for Wales Stephen Crabb said:<\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Over the last year, Wales has seen the largest increase in return to work out of all other parts of the UK.<\/p>\n<p>Inward investment and business growth seen earlier this year in Wales are now bearing real fruit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">We cannot be complacent &#8211; the UK is surrounded by economic risk and volatility. However we have a Government which is committed to delivering stability, security and the opportunity to succeed.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the latest statistics <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ons.gov.uk\/ons\/rel\/subnational-labour\/regional-labour-market-statistics\/september-2015\/index.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Employment is up again in Wales as growing numbers of people profit from a strengthening economy right across the country.<\/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\/61552"}],"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=61552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}