Latest tally shows 23,804 people were claiming Job Seekers Allowance in January - a rise of 566 compared with December
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The number of people out of work on Teesside is continuing to rise, according to new figures.
The latest tally shows 23,804 people were claiming Job Seekers Allowance in January - a rise of 566 compared with December.
Last month saw the first rise in the number of people claiming Job Seekers Allowance on Teesside in almost a year.
The Teesside figures have bucked the trend of falling unemployment seen across the North-east in recent months.
Numbers of those out of work fell by 3,000 across the region in the three months to December.
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) showed that a total of 130,000 people were unemployed in the North-east between October and December.
The region’s unemployment rate was 10% and it saw a fall of 2.3% during the period.
According to the North East Chamber of Commerce (NECC), employment in the North East stands at 1,174,000 or 67.4% – a rise of 7,000 over the quarter and 2,000 over the year. This compares to a rate of 72.1% nationally.
The claimant count stands at 72,200 or 5.8% in the North East (down 1,400), compared to 3.8% nationally.
NECC Policy and Research Manager Mark Stephenson, said: “The labour market figures in the North East are continuing to improve, even if unemployment remains stubbornly high.
“Our claimant count figure continues to shrink which is to be welcomed while we also continue our modest yet consistent progress in the employment figure which has improved on both the quarterly and annual measure – although as ever the quarterly figures must be read with a degree of caution owing to the margin of error.
“The labour market estimates for the North-east are as ever difficult to characterise but the overriding trend, going back several months, is that employment is increasing and the claimant count number is going down. The NECC will challenge the Government ahead of the forthcoming budget to develop policy in a way that enables businesses to play their part in addressing this.”
Local unemployment rates for Teesside are: Middlesbrough 6,230 (7%), Redcar & Cleveland 4,587 (5.5%), Stockton 6,085 (4.9%), Hartlepool 3,961 (6.8%) and Darlington 2,941 (4.5%).
Figures for December showed 23,238 people claimed Job Seekers Allowance on Teesside.
Unemployment nationally has continued to fall and a record number of women are in work, new figures have revealed. The jobless total was 2.34 million in the final quarter of last year, down by 125,000, giving a rate of 7.2%.
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