North East Herts MP Oliver Heald has welcomed the unemployment figures for November 2013, just published by the Office for National Statistics.
These show that the number of unemployed claimants in North East Hertfordshire has continued to fall and in November was 1,036. This represents a rate of 2.1% of the economically active population aged 16 to 64.
The number of claimants is 295 lower than in November 2012 and 99 lower than in October 2013.
Commenting, Oliver Heald said, “These figures are further good news for my constituents.”