Government must deliver growth-enhancing measures to tackle unemployment

The CBI commented on the latest official labour market data, showing that employment rose by 131,000 in the three months to January and unemployment also rose, by 7,000.

Neil Carberry, CBI Director for Employment & Skills, said:

“Unemployment has dropped over the past year but the pace of progress has stalled due to sluggish economic performance.

“This emphasises the need for the Government to deliver growth-enhancing measures on housing, infrastructure and access to finance.

“There are some hopeful signs - the private sector created over seven times as many jobs as were lost in the public sector in the last quarter of 2012 and recent growth in employment has been increasingly full-time, rather than part-time.”

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