Unemployment

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Employment – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 7 February 1995.

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Photo of Mr Ralph Howell Mr Ralph Howell , North Norfolk 12:00, 7 February 1995

While welcoming the fact that unemployment is falling, is that not partly due to the trend for one regular full-time job to be turned into two part-time jobs? Should we not cease to deceive ourselves that unemployment is falling in the long term when in fact it is 65 per cent. higher than it was four years ago?