{"id":75167,"date":"2016-10-19T11:42:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-19T11:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=7e01f811665dd499967790eb5297a034"},"modified":"2016-10-19T11:42:00","modified_gmt":"2016-10-19T11:42:00","slug":"press-release-secretary-of-state-welcomes-rising-employment-figures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=75167","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Secretary of State welcomes rising employment figures"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, James Brokenshire has welcomed the latest labour market figures published today.<\/p>\n<p>The statistics for Northern Ireland show continued positive trends and the employment rate is the highest since the series began in 1995, exceeding 70% for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>Reflecting on the news, the Secretary of State said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">Today\u2019s encouraging unemployment figures show a welcome fall for the sixth month in a row \u2013 with unemployment at the lowest level since 2008. There are also 64,000 more people in work in Northern Ireland since 2010.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">Economic inactivity also continues to fall, which is good news. The government will continue do everything it can to build a stronger economy and a Northern Ireland that works for everyone.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>A summary of the latest labour market figures for Northern Ireland:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>The employment rate has increased by 1.1 percentage points over the quarter and 2.2 percentage points over the year, now standing at 70.1 percent &#8211; the highest since the series began in 1995.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>There are 64,000 more people in work since 2010.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>The unemployment rate is at its lowest point since November 2008.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>The claimant count fell for the sixth successive month, with the Northern Ireland decrease being the largest of all UK regions.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Economic activity is up with economic inactivity falling to its lowest level since the series began in 1995.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Brokenshire encouraged by today&#8217;s labour market statistics, which show continued positive trends for NI.<\/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\/75167"}],"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=75167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75179,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75167\/revisions\/75179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}