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08-11-2010, 07:16 PM
Fresh fears over immigration as foreign born workers win three-quarters of new jobs
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Last updated at 4:11 PM on 11th August 2010
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The largest rise in employment for more than 21 years was mainly down to the influx of foreign workers, campaigners said today.
New official figures showed employment levels in the three months to June rose 184,000 to 29million in the biggest quarterly hike since 1989.
But the data from the Office for National Statistics reveals about three-quarters of this increase was due to workers born outside the UK.
Sir Andrew Green, from Migrationwatch UK, said the employment figures were 'further evidence that immigration really does affect the job prospects of British-born workers'.
'An astonishingly high proportion of the increase in employment is down to foreign workers getting jobs in Britain,' he said.
The quarterly rise in non-UK born workers was 145,000, compared with an increase of just 41,000 UK-born workers.
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/08/11/article-1302112-0AC262E7000005DC-516_468x356.jpg A Jobcentre in Westminster, London: The number of people without a job has fallen in the last quarter
The overall figure is adjusted to take account of how the labour market is affected by seasonal factors, such as school leavers starting work in June, the ONS said.
The figures also showed a total of 25.08 million people born in the UK were in employment in the three months to June 2010, down 15,000 on a year earlier.
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The number of people born outside the UK who were in employment was up 114,000 to 3.85 million, compared with the same time last year.
The employment rate for UK-born people aged from 16 to 64 was 70.9 per cent in the three months to June 2010, down 0.5 per cent on a year earlier.
The corresponding rate for non-UK born people was 66.5 per cent, up 0.5 per cent on this time last year.
Immigration minister Damian Green said: 'This Government believes that Britain can benefit from migration but not uncontrolled migration.
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'I recognise the importance of attracting the brightest and the best to ensure strong economic growth, but unlimited migration can place unacceptable pressure on public services.
'It is our aim to reduce the level of net migration back down to the levels of the 1990s - tens of thousands each year, not hundreds of thousands. Introducing a limit on migrants from outside Europe coming here to work is just one of the ways we intend to achieve this.
'Alongside our limits there will be action to get people back to work and provide business with the skills they need from the British workforce - reducing the need for migrants at the same time as we reduce their number.'
Meanwhile, the number of young people trapped in long-term unemployment has soared by 41.9 per cent in the last year, it emerged today.
Today's figures reveal that 72,000 people aged 18 to 24 had been out of work for two years or more in the three months up to June.
This was an 11 per cent increase on the previous quarter - and a 41.9 per cent increase in the past 12 months.
The figures fuel fears that tens of thousands of young people have never had a job and risk being caught in an inescapable unemployment trap.
Despite the bleak forecast for younger workers, the overall unemployment figure was down by 49,000 to 2.45million.
Employment rose as the number of part-time workers lifted by 115,000 in the quarter to a record 7.84 million - suggesting more people are struggling to find full-time permanent jobs.
But the ONS said there was also a lift in those in full-time work, up by an encouraging 68,000 to 21.2 million in the quarter to June.
Today's figures also show the sixth successive fall in the claimant count for those on Jobseeker's Allowance, down 3,800 to 1.46million - although this was far lower than expected by analysts.
And the ONS revised down last month's quarterly fall in the claimant count, from 20,800 to 15,900.
Its figures also showed the unemployment rate was 7.8 per cent in the April to June quarter.
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Encouraging news on the headline unemployment figure is unlikely to calm fears of a spike in jobless workers when the Government's austerity measures take effect.
A survey of 600 employers earlier this week by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) found a third expected to cut jobs in the next three months - the worst figure for a year and up from one in four at the end of 2009.
The Treasury itself has estimated that there will be 600,000 public sector job cuts over the next five years and experts worry this will far outweigh any rise in employment in the private sector.
The ONS data showed further pressure on wages, with average earnings up 1.3 per cent in the three months to June, down sharply on the 2.7 per cent previously.
This comes as Britons battle against stubbornly high inflation, which has remained above the Government's three per cent target throughout 2010 so far.
There are also worrying signs for long-term unemployment, with the number of people out of work for more than a year up 33,000 to a 13-year high of 796,000 over the quarter to June.
However, the number of economically inactive workers fell further from record highs seen earlier this year, down 49,000 to 9.4million.
The ONS added that UK job vacancies lifted by 9,000 during the three months to July, to 481,000.
This was up 51,000 on a year earlier and meant there were 1.8 vacancies per 100 employee jobs.
Shadow employment minister Jim Knight welcomed the fall in the jobless total, but warned that Government spending cuts now threatened the recovery.
'Today's figures continue to show that the action the Labour government took last year worked,' he said.
'But, as we face huge cuts in spending, private sector jobs growth is neither strong or sustained enough to take on those people who will lose their jobs due to the Government's spending cuts.'
Vicky Redwood of Capital Economics said the latest unemployment figures were 'generally positive', with the rise in full-time jobs a welcome sign for the UK.
Howard Archer, chief economist at IHS Global Insight, predicted the number of unemployed in the UK would start rising back up later this year, increasing throughout 2011 to peak at 2.85 million in 2012.
He added the wider economy may come under further pressure as consumers feel the pinch from muted wage growth and high inflation.
'It is hard to see consumer spending being anything else than muted for an extended period,' he said.
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The largest rise in employment for more than 21 years was mainly down to the influx of foreign workers, campaigners said today.
New official figures showed employment levels in the three months to June rose 184,000 to 29million in the biggest quarterly hike since 1989.
But the data from the Office for National Statistics reveals about three-quarters of this increase was due to workers born outside the UK.
Sir Andrew Green, from Migrationwatch UK, said the employment figures were 'further evidence that immigration really does affect the job prospects of British-born workers'.
'An astonishingly high proportion of the increase in employment is down to foreign workers getting jobs in Britain,' he said.
The quarterly rise in non-UK born workers was 145,000, compared with an increase of just 41,000 UK-born workers.
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/08/11/article-1302112-0AC262E7000005DC-516_468x356.jpg A Jobcentre in Westminster, London: The number of people without a job has fallen in the last quarter
The overall figure is adjusted to take account of how the labour market is affected by seasonal factors, such as school leavers starting work in June, the ONS said.
The figures also showed a total of 25.08 million people born in the UK were in employment in the three months to June 2010, down 15,000 on a year earlier.
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The number of people born outside the UK who were in employment was up 114,000 to 3.85 million, compared with the same time last year.
The employment rate for UK-born people aged from 16 to 64 was 70.9 per cent in the three months to June 2010, down 0.5 per cent on a year earlier.
The corresponding rate for non-UK born people was 66.5 per cent, up 0.5 per cent on this time last year.
Immigration minister Damian Green said: 'This Government believes that Britain can benefit from migration but not uncontrolled migration.
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/08/11/article-1302112-0AC27FC6000005DC-775_233x423.jpg
'I recognise the importance of attracting the brightest and the best to ensure strong economic growth, but unlimited migration can place unacceptable pressure on public services.
'It is our aim to reduce the level of net migration back down to the levels of the 1990s - tens of thousands each year, not hundreds of thousands. Introducing a limit on migrants from outside Europe coming here to work is just one of the ways we intend to achieve this.
'Alongside our limits there will be action to get people back to work and provide business with the skills they need from the British workforce - reducing the need for migrants at the same time as we reduce their number.'
Meanwhile, the number of young people trapped in long-term unemployment has soared by 41.9 per cent in the last year, it emerged today.
Today's figures reveal that 72,000 people aged 18 to 24 had been out of work for two years or more in the three months up to June.
This was an 11 per cent increase on the previous quarter - and a 41.9 per cent increase in the past 12 months.
The figures fuel fears that tens of thousands of young people have never had a job and risk being caught in an inescapable unemployment trap.
Despite the bleak forecast for younger workers, the overall unemployment figure was down by 49,000 to 2.45million.
Employment rose as the number of part-time workers lifted by 115,000 in the quarter to a record 7.84 million - suggesting more people are struggling to find full-time permanent jobs.
But the ONS said there was also a lift in those in full-time work, up by an encouraging 68,000 to 21.2 million in the quarter to June.
Today's figures also show the sixth successive fall in the claimant count for those on Jobseeker's Allowance, down 3,800 to 1.46million - although this was far lower than expected by analysts.
And the ONS revised down last month's quarterly fall in the claimant count, from 20,800 to 15,900.
Its figures also showed the unemployment rate was 7.8 per cent in the April to June quarter.
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/08/11/article-1302112-0AC291D5000005DC-124_468x322.jpg
Encouraging news on the headline unemployment figure is unlikely to calm fears of a spike in jobless workers when the Government's austerity measures take effect.
A survey of 600 employers earlier this week by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) found a third expected to cut jobs in the next three months - the worst figure for a year and up from one in four at the end of 2009.
The Treasury itself has estimated that there will be 600,000 public sector job cuts over the next five years and experts worry this will far outweigh any rise in employment in the private sector.
The ONS data showed further pressure on wages, with average earnings up 1.3 per cent in the three months to June, down sharply on the 2.7 per cent previously.
This comes as Britons battle against stubbornly high inflation, which has remained above the Government's three per cent target throughout 2010 so far.
There are also worrying signs for long-term unemployment, with the number of people out of work for more than a year up 33,000 to a 13-year high of 796,000 over the quarter to June.
However, the number of economically inactive workers fell further from record highs seen earlier this year, down 49,000 to 9.4million.
The ONS added that UK job vacancies lifted by 9,000 during the three months to July, to 481,000.
This was up 51,000 on a year earlier and meant there were 1.8 vacancies per 100 employee jobs.
Shadow employment minister Jim Knight welcomed the fall in the jobless total, but warned that Government spending cuts now threatened the recovery.
'Today's figures continue to show that the action the Labour government took last year worked,' he said.
'But, as we face huge cuts in spending, private sector jobs growth is neither strong or sustained enough to take on those people who will lose their jobs due to the Government's spending cuts.'
Vicky Redwood of Capital Economics said the latest unemployment figures were 'generally positive', with the rise in full-time jobs a welcome sign for the UK.
Howard Archer, chief economist at IHS Global Insight, predicted the number of unemployed in the UK would start rising back up later this year, increasing throughout 2011 to peak at 2.85 million in 2012.
He added the wider economy may come under further pressure as consumers feel the pinch from muted wage growth and high inflation.
'It is hard to see consumer spending being anything else than muted for an extended period,' he said.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1302112/Number-long-term-unemployed-young-people-soars-42.html#ixzz0wLHGldXu