UK unemployment total drops by 7,000 but wage growth slows - business live
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All the day´s economic and financial news, including a new healthcheck on Britain´s labour forceLatest: UK jobless rate sticks at 11-year lowONS: Labour market approaching full capacityEmployment total hits new record high.....but wage growth dips to 2.6%Millions of UK families trapped below poverty line 10.19am GMT This chart plots the UK unemployment rate over the last 45 years (in blue), and also the rates for men (yellow) and women (red) 10.12am GMT Here´s Work and Pensions Secretary Damian Green on today´s jobs report: `With employment at its highest rate since records began, and unemployment at its lowest in over a decade, we remain in a position of strength. `Our ongoing welfare reforms will continue to incentivise work and make sure the system is fair to all those who need it and those who pay for it. 10.08am GMT The Department of Work and Pensions are tweeting some positive points from today´s jobs report:New independent stats show the number of people in work has risen in every region and nation of the UK since 2010 pic.twitter.com/w2VWPrvWy5Independent stats show that the number of disabled people in work is the highest since comparable records began in 2013 #DisabilityConfident pic.twitter.com/Ucu2lHgHwHEmployment is at a record rate of 74.6% with a record 31.84 million now in work. Read the news release here https://t.co/8N5CfPM3if pic.twitter.com/A5NqX0trOv 10.06am GMT Today´s jobs report also shows how the number of non-UK nationals working in Britain has grown over the last two decades, from almost 4% of the workforce to nearly 11%.The ONS says that between October to December 2015 and October to December 2016: 9.57am GMT Today´s labour market report also shows a small drop in the number of EU workers in the UK, in the final three months of 2016.Does that show that the Brexit vote is having an effect? Possibly....but we should be cautious here, as these figures aren´t seasonally adjusted.`The data on non-UK nationals and non-UK born workers is n ...