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Britain Isn't Working !! PDF Print E-mail

More than one in six UK homes which house at least one person of working age does not have anyone in employment, official statistics show.

This is the highest rate since 1999, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said. The number of workless households hit 3.3 million in April to June, a 240,000 rise compared with a year earlier.  

A workless household is defined by the ONS as a home, which includes at least one person of working age, where nobody aged 16 or over is in employment.

As a result, the workless household figure is higher than the number of people who are counted unemployed - 2.35 million - as it includes people such as early retirees, full-time students or those receiving disability benefit who are not included in the official unemployment statistics.

Statistics:

The proportion of households where no adults work rose by 1.1% in April to June 2009 compared with the same period a year earlier, to 16.9% - or nearly one in six working-age households.

This was the highest rate since 1999 and marked the largest year-on-year increase since comparable statistics were first collected in 1997.

The rate was highest in the north-east of England - 23.2% - and lowest in the east of England - 12.2%.

Of the households that are workless, the rate was highest in lone-parent households, at 40.4%, followed by one-person households, at 30.1%.  

More married and cohabiting fathers are spending time at home, rather than at work, the figures show. The employment rate of this group showed the largest fall, down 2.1% to 88.8%.

The total number of working-age people in workless households stood at 4.8 million in April to June 2009, up 500,000 on a year earlier. The number of children in workless households also increased, the figures show. This was up 170,000 to 1.9 million.  

 Popular Alliance Comment:

So Alistair Darling thinks the recession will be at an end soon. But the legacy of debt and unemployment are the true reflection on Labours economic performance.

 
EU rule costs 5,400 doctors PDF Print E-mail
On Saturday 1 August 2009, new EU rules came into force in the UK which will cut junior doctors’ maximum working hours from 56 to 48 hours a week.

Combined with the existing regulations on doctors’ working hours, handed down by the European Court of Justice, the new cap on junior doctors’ hours will cost the NHS between £143 million and £293 million. For the same amount that the NHS will spend complying with the new rules, it could employ between 3,835 and 7,858 additional junior doctors, with a mean estimate of 5,400, according to new estimates.

The Government estimated in 2004 that the combination of the controversial SiMAP and Jaeger rulings, and the capping of the working week for junior doctors at 48 hours, would cost the UK economy between £380 million and £780 million. In today’s prices this cost rises to between £420 million and £862 million. This estimate is slightly lower than a similar estimate by the British Medical Association in 2004, that the new EU rules would be tantamount to losing between 4300 and 9900 junior doctors by 2009. In 2004, the Government also estimated that complying with the rules the rules would require about 1,250 additional health care staff other than doctors and between 6,250 and 12,550 additional doctors.

Based on the Government’s own Impact Assessments it was estimated in March this year that the total cost of the EU’s working time directive now runs at between £3.4 billion and £3.9 billion a year.

Popular Alliance Comment

Yet again Europe meddles on our affairs to create rules that frankly no-one wants and will squeeze the empty government coffers even further.

 

Topical Comment

Gordon declares he is WYSIWYG

Well what we have seen is what we got:

  • An unelected PM with a dubious management style
  • A disastrous Pension crisis
  • Broken manifesto promises - No EU referendum
  • 3 times disgraced minister resignation - reinstated as a Lord and pseudo PM
  • Introduced more stealth taxes than any other chancellor in history
  • Sold UK gold reserves at the bottom of the market ignoring expert advice not to
  • Masterfully convinced people that they are “better off under Labour” even though each family now pays more than £5,000 in extra tax, compared to 1997
  • Etc, the list goes on. See

http://www.power-to-the-people.co.uk/

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