Please note: for information on accessing food banks and food parcels during the pandemic please see our briefing Coronavirus: Support for household finances. For an account of developments in food bank activity over the crisis period see section 7 of this paper, Food Banks in the UK. Recent research means we have increasing amounts of data on food banks, giving us a fuller picture of their provision across the UK, and providing a more detailed picture of the characteristics of food bank users.
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Unemployment by Constituency, April 2016 (2 MB, PDF)
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Supporting documents
- Data-for-all-constituencies---April-2016 (145 KB, Excel Spreadsheet) (145 KB, Excel Spreadsheet)
This paper contains claimant count figures for parliamentary constituencies, as well as a summary of the latest labour market statistics for the UK as a whole.
- The number of people claiming Jobseeker’s Allowance or not in work and claiming Universal Credit increased by 6,700 between February 2016 and March 2016 to 732,100.
- The unemployment rate was 5.1% in December 2015-February 2016. The ILO measure of unemployment was 1.70 million people, up 21,000 from the previous quarter and down 142,000 from the previous year.
- The number of people in employment was 31.41 million in December 2015-February 2016, up 20,000 from the previous quarter and up 360,000 from the previous year. The employment rate was 74.1%, the joint highest since comparable records began in 1971.
- Average weekly total pay in Great Britain increased by 1.8% in the three months to February 2016 compared with the previous year. Regular pay (excluding bonuses) grew by 2.2%. CPI inflation averaged 0.3% over this period.
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Documents to download
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Unemployment by Constituency, April 2016 (2 MB, PDF)
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Supporting documents
- Data-for-all-constituencies---April-2016 (145 KB, Excel Spreadsheet) (145 KB, Excel Spreadsheet)
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