Claimants of unemployment-related benefits March 2024

The Office for National Statistics has released its monthly figures on people in the UK claiming unemployment-related benefits. The ONS measure includes “out of work Universal Credit claimants” and “Job Seeker’s Allowance claimants.” For 16 to 64 year olds, the national average for claimants per local authority sits at 4,476. This compares to an average…

Claimants of unemployment-related benefits for January 2024

The Office for National Statistics has released its latest monthly figures on people in the UK claiming unemployment-related benefits. The ONS measure includes “out of work Universal Credit claimants” and “Job Seeker’s Allowance claimants.” For 16 to 64 year olds, the national average for claimants per local authority sits at 4,353 people. The latest figures…

Claimants of unemployment-related benefits

The number of people claiming unemployment-related benefits in the United Kingdom for December 2023 has increased when compared to the same period in 2022. This data was released by the Office for National Statistics on the 16th of January 2024. The Office for National Statistics includes “out of work Universal Credit claimants” and “Job Seeker’s…

Putting the ‘map’ into the snap election

OK. We’ll be honest. Like you, that took us by surprise. The file labelled ‘general election plan’ contained precisely nothing. The prime minister had said there would be no snap election, and we believed her. As did our journalist colleagues at Politics.co.uk. Well however mad or shrewd she may be, here we are just seven…