Damian Hinds has welcomed new figures showing that there are 44,000 fewer workless households in the South East since 2010.
Across the United Kingdom as a whole the number of workless households is down 671,000 since the last election, with the proportion of workless households now at its lowest level since records began in 1996. The fall over the last year was 271,000, a record drop.
Damian Hinds said:
“It’s very encouraging to see that the number of households without a member in work has dropped so dramatically. Unemployment in general has been falling continuously in East Hampshire over the last few years, and – although there is undoubtedly more work to be done – we are clearly going in the right direction.”