Britain's unemployment rate held at 5.3% in the three months to November, official data show today.
Under the International Labour Organisation measure of unemployment, the rate also stood at 5.3% for the three months to October. The ILO claimant count fell by 13,000 during the three months to November to 1.65 million, Britain's Office for National Statistics said.
According to the British government's preferred measure of unemployment, the rate stood at 2.5% in December, the lowest level since April 1975, and unchanged from November.
The claimant count dropped by 6,400 to 807,700 people in December from November, to record the lowest level since June, 1975. That marked the fifteenth monthly drop in a row and was the smallest fall since February 2007.
