Unemployment rises by 10,000 in the region
Unemployment has risen in the region as the pandemic continues to hit jobs across the UK.
The number of people unemployed in the West Midlands – including Shropshire – rose by 10,000, or 4.9 per cent of the working population, for the three months between July and September.
Meanwhile, the total in employment in the region was 2.79 million.
Nationally, more people were made redundant in the three-month period than at any point on record, according to new official statistics, as the pandemic laid waste to large parts of the economy.
About 314,000 redundancies were registered during the three months, up by 181,000 from the quarter before, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
The data suggests that unemployment in the UK reached 4.8 per cent in the three months to September.
