{"id":85469,"date":"2017-10-18T10:06:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-18T10:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=aead7ab3161d2e18d2f8837d6d7193ca"},"modified":"2017-10-18T10:12:03","modified_gmt":"2017-10-18T10:12:03","slug":"press-release-october-2017-labour-market-statistics-for-scotland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=85469","title":{"rendered":"Press release: October 2017 labour market statistics for Scotland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Updated:<\/em> Added picture<\/p>\n<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Commenting on today\u2019s labour market statistics for Scotland, Scottish Secretary David Mundell said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>It is encouraging to see an increase in employment, which remains close to record levels.<\/p>\n<p>But the rise in unemployment is disappointing and shows we must remain focused on boosting Scotland\u2019s economy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">Growth in Scotland lags behinds the rest of the UK and I\u2019d urge the Scottish Government to use their considerable economic levers more effectively.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The statistics can be accessed on the ONS website.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"further-information\">Further information<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Employment in Scotland increased by 35,000 over the quarter, and increased by 40,000 over the year to stand at 2,655,000.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>The Scots employment rate increased over the quarter to stand at 75.3 per cent. The rate is now at a near record high and is above the UK average of 75.1 per cent.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Unemployment in Scotland increased by 9,000 over the quarter and is down 15,000 over the year.  The level now stands at 113,000.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>At 4.1 per cent, the Scots unemployment rate is below that for the UK as a whole.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Economic activity increased by 44,000 over the quarter and now stands at 2,767,000. The economic activity rate increased over the quarter to stand at 78.5 per cent.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>In September 2017, the number of people out of work and claiming out-of-work benefit &#8211; Jobseeker\u2019s Allowance (JSA) and Universal Credit (UC) &#8211; was 80,500, up 500 over the month. The claimant count level is now 700 higher compared to one year ago.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Employment in Scotland increased by 35,000 over the quarter, and increased by 40,000 over the year to stand at 2,655,000<\/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\/85469"}],"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=85469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}