Hundreds fewer claiming JSA in Horsham

Job Centre Plus Offices, at Derby. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Monday November 19, 2012. See PA story. Photo credit should read: Rui Vieira/PA Wire

The number of claimants has dropped by 13 per cent over the last three months and now stands at 1,172.

Horsham continues to have the third lowest rate of unemployment in Sussex at 1.4 per cent.

The Sussex average is 2.7 per cent, and the lowest was Mid Sussex with a rate of one per cent.

A similar fall in unemployment appears across the region with more than 3,000 fewer people claiming JSA over the same period.

Wendy Bell, General Manager at Sussex Enterprise welcomed the “modest” market improvement in Sussex.

Commenting on unemployment figures published by the Office for National Statistics,she said: “Looking at the national picture, in the first quarter of 2013, public sector employment fell by 22,000, while private sector employment increased by 46,000.

“However national pay, excluding bonuses, remains well below inflation at 0.9%, exacerbating the squeeze on real incomes.”

For the original data visit the Office for National Statistics website