Where I would I get the statistics of unemployment benefit for past 30 years in UK?

Question

I know unemployment benefit has been called various names over time. I just want to know the weekly amounts paid to see how they correlate with the rate of inflation. The historical information must be stored somewhere.

Answer 1

You can directly ask the government, and cite that you are asking under The Freedom of Information Act. They legally have to tell you within 2 weeks. Start with your local MP at www.writetothem.com who will email / fax (preferable) them for free.

Answer 2

The main problem emerging for the UK is the growing levels of unemployment and concealed unemployment. The jobless totals have been rising for the last two years. The number officially out of work stands at 1.68 million. If you factor in most of the people on disability benefit who would like a job and could do one, and those on other benefits like single parent benefit who would also like to find employment, we discover that there are a staggering 5 million people in the UK without jobs. The Chancellor himself believes that many of those on disability and single parent benefit should find jobs, and has developed elaborate programmes to bring this about. He is proving, yet again, that government programmes cannot overcome deeper seated obstacles to job creation in a modern economy.



The OECD has shown that the UK has the highest proportion of unemployed men between the ages of 25 and 49 of any of the leading 23 countries it surveyed. There are twenty times as many people claiming disability benefit now than in 1997.

http://www.competitivechallenge.com/index.php/archives/policy-group-interim-report/#more-48

Answer 3

This site has a number of links to help you

Answer 4

try wikipedia