Unemployment in the UK continued to decrease in the three months to July, according to new figures from the Office for National Statistics. The number of people of working age in employment rose by 84,000 over the previous quarter and reached an all-time high of 29.1 million. Meanwhile, the number of vacancies for employment also increased during the quarter, bringing the total to 31.69 million - a rise of 280,000 vacancies over the same time in 2006. And average earnings excluding bonuses for the three months to July rose by 3.5 per cent, which was a gain of 0.1 percentage points from the month before. Employment minister Caroline Flint said: "Once again we have a strong set of labour market figures with record numbers in work. "We have made real improvements since 1997 - reducing the number of people claiming unemployment benefit by almost half and seeing numbers on all main out of work benefits fall in total by around a million."
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