Good News – Rugby’s unemployment continues to fall

There are two ways of counting unemployment. The first is a sample of the population called the Labour Force Survey which asks people whether they want work and cannot get it. The second is a count of the number of people who claim job seekers allowance. Figures for the second method of counting unemployment are released every month and show that in May the number of people unemployed (and claiming job seekers allowance) fell by 23 to 575.

Rugby Liberal Democrats believe this fall in unemployment is the result of the good legacy of the coalition's economic record. The number of people claiming job seekers allowance in Rugby for the last full month that Labour ran the country (April 2010) was 2,046.