Youth unemployment at record lows

Brentford and Isleworth MP Mary Macleod today welcomed new employment figures showing that local unemployment had fallen this month by 2.8%. Local youth unemployment also fell by 2.1% and is now 19% lower than it was before the 2010 General Election.[1]

The news comes two months after the West London Jobs and Apprenticeships Fair on the 11th April and after several events ran by Mary and business experts to encourage women locally to set up new businesses.

Mary commented: “This is great news for the local area and it shows that we’re on the right track. I hope to use my position as London’s Small Business Ambassador to push this figure even lower, working with small businesses to help them expand, take on apprentices and discover new markets in the coming years”.

Unemployment and youth unemployment both nationally and in London also fell.

Full figures:

BRENTFORD AND ISLEWORTH CLAIMANT COUNT

May 2010: 2,377 – 3.3%

May 2013 2,212 – 3.1%

LONDON CLAIMANT COUNT

May 2010: 218,734 – 5.1%

May 2013 213,302 – 5.0%

UK CLAIMANT COUNT

May 2010: 1,502,155 – 4.8%

May 2013 1,495,758 – 4.8%

PHOTO: (left to right) Kit Malthouse, Deputy Mayor of London for Business and Enterprise; Mary Macleod MP; Marjorie Semple, Principal of West Thames College; Annie Miles, Parliamentary Assistant

[1] Source: Office of National Statistics and House of Commons Library