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<p>The latest ONS headline figures for unemployment published in July for the quarter
ending May 2020, remain at 3.9%.</p><p> </p><p>DWP publishes, via its Stat Xplore
website, official statistics on the number of people claiming unemployment-related
benefits by parliamentary constituency and local authority area (the ‘Alternative
Claimant Count’).</p><p> </p><p>Estimates of the number of people who are unemployed
are compiled by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) using the Labour Force Survey
(LFS) and Annual Population Survey (APS).</p><p> </p><p>The LFS provides national
and regional unemployment estimates whilst the APS, which is a modified version of
the LFS, allows sub-regional analysis.</p><p> </p><p>Estimates are based on a sample
of cases and therefore subject to sampling uncertainty. Unemployment estimates at
sub-regional geographies such as local authorities and parliamentary constituencies
are especially uncertain.</p><p> </p><p>The latest figures from the LFS estimate that
in the quarter March-May 20 there were 256,000 people unemployed in London. This equates
to an unemployment rate for London of 5.1% - an increase of 0.6 %pts on the December-February
20 quarter.</p><p> </p><p>All estimates of unemployment used in this answer are publicly
available on the NOMIS website (<a href="https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/" target="_blank">https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/</a>).
All estimates of Alternative Claimant Count used in this answer are publicly available
on the StatXplore website (<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/alternative-claimant-count-statistics-january-2013-to-may-2020"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/alternative-claimant-count-statistics-january-2013-to-may-2020</a>).</p><p>
</p><p>ONS considers its estimate of unemployment in Bexleyheath and Crayford constituency
to be statistically unreliable as the sample size is based on fewer than 10 people.</p>
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