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Former prime minister calls for total rethink on support for unemployed and assessment of data after new report
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The measurement of unemployment has always been a controversial subject: with the definition of who is unemployed having been changed many times in my lifetime.
However, recent research by the Alliance for Full Employment suggests that the officially unemployed figure of 1.7 million (or 4.9% of the workforce) might be missing another 300,000 people.
So is the Labour Force Survey (LFS) figure still accurate? The ONS have acknowledged that the current pandemic has posed problems for calculating levels of unemployment.