• A record 592,000 people are classified as long-term sick but want to have a job
  • Vacancies fell again to 1.05 million, the 11th consecutive quarterly fall.  The number of unemployed people per vacancy was 1.2
  • Record level of payrolled employees at 30 million, up 460,000 over the 12-month period and up slightly on the last quarter
  • Growth in total pay was 6.5% and regular pay was 7.2% although they fell in real terms by 2% and 1.3% respectively
  • 5.97 million people were claiming Universal Credit, down 80,800 from previous month, of which 1.42 million were searching for wor