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Unemployment falls in Scotland compared to rest of UK

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unemployment rate among those aged 16 and over was 4.2 per cent, down –0.6 per cent down on the previous quarter. Meanwhile the employment rate for those aged 16 to 64 was 74.8 per cent, a 1.4 per cent increase on the previous quarter.

The figures cover the time covid lockdown eased in early autumn and the period in which people were encouraged to eat out to help out with subsidised restaurant meals.

Over the same time the jobless rate across the UK rose at a faster pace in the fall in Scotland to 4.9 per centScotland saw the biggest drop in unemployment of any nation of the UK or English region.But there is little expectation that the increase in work will last as the furlough scheme masks the true levels of unemployment and the number of.

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