Andrew Fisher 13 days ago
NEW: Unemployment has risen to 1,832,000. That's up 158,000 in the last 3 months and up 327,000 in the last year
On a wider measure including underemployment, there are now 5.19 million people underemployed - up by nearly 0.5m on a year ago
There are now 7.2 people seeking work for every vacancy.