The unemployment figures for the UK are out at 9.30am this morning and should show a significant rise. In Wales, last month saw an increase of 10,000 in those claiming benefit and, given the way businesses are losing jobs all over the country, unemployment may well hit 100,000 by the end of 2008. However, it is easy to forget that this is only the tip of the iceberg and, as the academic Stephen Fo...

Unemployment levels are rising fast in the UK, with a 164,000 increase this month to 1.79 million.

I read that unemployment here in Northern Ireland could rise by 1,000 every month in 2009, a Bank of Ireland economist has said. The bank's head of economics and research said in a report published on Monday that the total out of work would increase from about 34,000 to 50,000. "The jobless rate is expected to rise to around 6%," said Alan Bridle. However, the report said that Northern Irelan...

Unemployment has continued to soar in Scotland while the number of jobless people fell in the rest of the UK, creating a widening gap in the pace of economic recovery north and south of the Border.

On any normal news day, the fact that unemployment has gone up by 5% in one month - let me repeat that, 5% in one month, would have been the top story of the day. Yet, it has been eclipsed by the Lloyds/HBOS story. Unemployment is at a nine year high. For a government which defines economic success by the length of the dole queues, this is a bitter blow. I have been trying in vain to Google the fi...

SOME of the biggest increases in the number of people claiming unemployment benefit in the UK have been in Scotland, according to a report by Bank of Scotland.

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...

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

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.