{"id":972,"date":"2015-10-14T12:26:33","date_gmt":"2015-10-14T12:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?p=972"},"modified":"2015-10-15T12:54:07","modified_gmt":"2015-10-15T12:54:07","slug":"unemployment-continues-to-fall-in-sevenoaks-constituency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?p=972","title":{"rendered":"Unemployment Continues to Fall in Sevenoaks Constituency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-974 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/unemployment-oct-15.png\" alt=\"unemployment oct 15\" width=\"347\" height=\"348\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/unemployment-oct-15.png 540w, http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/unemployment-oct-15-150x150.png 150w, http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/unemployment-oct-15-298x300.png 298w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 347px) 85vw, 347px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Michael was very pleased that\u00a0<a title=\"ONS\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ons.gov.uk\/ons\/dcp171778_417237.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">figures released today<\/a> by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show that the\u00a0number of people out of work in Sevenoaks fell again this month.<\/p>\n<p>The unemployment rate in the Sevenoaks constituency is now just 0.9%.\u00a0 The number of people unemployed has fallen by almost 20% so far this year and is now 58% lower than in 2010.\u00a0 Youth unemployment has also fallen by a third since the same month last year.<\/p>\n<p>Michael said: &#8220;It is extremely good news that unemployment in Sevenoaks has fallen once again this month. \u00a0I also welcome the fact that unemployment across the country is now at a seven-year low, while the employment rate is the highest since records began.\u00a0\u00a0Sevenoaks is continuing to experience the benefits of the Government\u2019s long-term economic plan to support hardworking people.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael was very pleased that\u00a0figures released today by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show that the\u00a0number of people out of work in Sevenoaks fell again this month. The unemployment rate in the Sevenoaks constituency is now just 0.9%.\u00a0 The number of people unemployed has fallen by almost 20% so far this year and is &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?p=972\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unemployment Continues to Fall in Sevenoaks Constituency&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[9],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=972"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":984,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972\/revisions\/984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}