Christopher Pincher Welcomes Fall in Tamworth’s Unemployment

Christopher Pincher, Conservative MP for Tamworth, welcomed figures released that show unemployment in Tamworth has fallen once again to a new low.

Figures published by the ONS show that the number of unemployed claimants in Tamworth constituency in September 2014 was 515.  This represents a rate of just 1.1% of the economically active population aged 16 to 64.

This number of claimants is a massive 725 lower than September 2013 and 63 lower than in August 2014.  In fact, unemployment in Tamworth has almost halved in the last six months.

In March, the number of unemployed was approaching 1000.  This means that Tamworth now has one of the lowest rates of unemployment in the country.

Responding to these figures Mr Pincher said, “It is excellent news that unemployment in Tamworth has fallen once again and continues to drop below levels seen before the Labour government’s recession.  Together with the fall in inflation, which we also saw last week, it is now clear that the government’s long-term economic plan is working, businesses are creating jobs and people are getting back into work.

“But we must not be complacent, there is still much to do. We must continue to make Tamworth the place to set up or expand a business and that is what I am trying do helping both the council and local enterprises.

“We must take care to guard against the old bad habits of the past which relied too much on public sector and financial services jobs as Gordon Brown and Ed Balls did.  We need more small businesses and more skilled workers to deliver a broad-based recovery.”

Nationally too unemployment continues to fall.  Between June and August, unemployment across the United Kingdom stood at 6%, the lowest figure since before the crash of 2008.