Unemployment figure makes biggest jump in almost two decades to reach 6.7% UK benefit claimants where you live UK unemployment - the jobless map of Britain Unemployment in Britain recorded its biggest jump in almost two decades last month, official figures revealed this morning, just hours before the chancellor, Alistair Darling, delivers his budget speech in the Commons. Unemployment on the Inter...

The number of people out of work in the UK rises 88,000 to another 14-year high, official figures show.

Unemployment has fallen in Scotland for the first time in a year, despite going up across the UK as a whole.

The number of people out of work in the UK has risen by 210,000 in the three months to July, the latest official figures show.

The Scottish Secretary and First Minister have vied to claim the credit after Scotland was revealed to be the only part of the UK where unemployment is falling.

New official unemployment figures show the number of people out of work is gradually rising.

UK unemployment fell 26,000 in the three months to May to 2.45m, but the claimant count increased in June, official figures show.

Official figures released later look set to show that the number of people out of work in the UK rose again in September.

Unemployment has continued to soar in Scotland despite the rest of Britain seeing a fall in the number of jobless people, according to official figures just published.

Statistics released yesterday show that official unemployment in the UK fell by 33,000 in the last quater of 2009 to 2.45million leaving the UK jobless rate at 7.8%. Party politics aside we should all be delighted when we hear that unemployment in the UK has fallen and in normal circumstances I would be, however as is