Unemployment Up Again In The North West

14 March 2012, 09:53 | Updated: 30 March 2016, 13:50

Unemployment in the North West's gone up by 16,000 in the three months to January.

The new stats out this morning show 317,000 people are out of a job in the region - compared to 148,000 in the three months to December.

The figures also show that more men than women in the North West are unemployed - 189,000 men aren't working in the North West compared to 128,000 women.

In the same three months of 2010 (November - January) the jobless figure for the region stood at 291,000, meaning there's been an annual increase of 26,000.

Nationally, unemployment went up by 28,000 between November and January.

The figure now stands at 2.67 million - which means 8.4% of the working population doesn't have a job.

Youth unemployment went up by 16,000.

But the number of people IN work increased by 9,000 to 29.1 million.