In 2024/25 the government of the United Kingdom spent approximately 312 million British pounds on the Jobseekers Allowance, the main benefit for unemployed people in the country. During the provided time period, spending on this type of benefit peaked in 2012/13 when it reached almost 5.17 billion pounds.

The expenditure on unemployment benefits in the United Kingdom was one billion British pounds in 2023/24, a decrease when compared with the previous year.

Approximately **** million people claimed unemployment benefits in the United Kingdom in the first quarter of 2025, one of the lowest claimant counts since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic and subsequent lockdowns played havoc with the UK economy, leading to the sharp rise in jobless claims seen here in the second quarter of 2020.

The headline measure of the claimant count has been changed to include some claimants of Universal Credit (UC) as well as Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA) claimants, resulting in upward revisions to the claimant count back to May 2013. Previously the headline measure did not include UC claimants. The claimant count measures the number of people claiming unemployment related benefits. Between October 1996 and April 2013, the only unemployment related benefit in the UK was JSA and the claimant count was therefore a count of the number of people claiming JSA. There have been revisions to the claimant count back to January 2012, resulting from the annual review of the seasonal adjustment process, and revisions to national and regional claimant count rates back to 2001, resulting from updating the denominators to take account of the latest estimates of Workforce Jobs. There have been further revisions to the claimant count back to May 2013 resulting from incorporating estimates of Universal Credit.

This dataset contains series for the Claimant Count (which measures the number of people claiming unemployment-related benefits) and vacancies.

This data has been taken from LGInform at http://lginform.local.gov.uk/ data reference ID 5470 The figures show the numbers of people claiming unemployment benefits aged between 25-49 and living in Plymouth. The data is monthly and shows data ranging from Jan 2013 to May 2017. Number of people claiming unemployment related benefits, aged 25-49 - This is the total number of people aged 24-49 claiming unemployment related benefits (Claimant Count). The Claimant Count is a measure of the number of people claiming benefits principally for the reason of being unemployed, based on administrative data from the benefits system. From April 2015, the Claimant Count includes all Universal Credit claimants who are required to seek work and be available for work, as well as all Jobseeker's Allowance (JSA) claimants, between May 2013 and March 2015, the Claimant Count includes all out of work Universal Credit claimants as well as all JSA claimants prior to this the Claimant Count is a count of the number of people claiming JSA. The Claimant Count includes people who claim unemployment related benefits but who do not receive payment. For example some claimants will have had their benefits stopped for a limited period of time by Jobcentre Plus. Some people claim JSA in order to receive National Insurance Credits. The Claimant Count does not attempt to measure unemployment, which is a concept defined by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) as all those who are out of work, actively seeking work and available to start work. However, since the people claiming benefits are generally a particular subset of the unemployed, the Claimant Count can provide a useful indication of how unemployment is likely to vary between areas and over time. The Claimant Count estimates provide the best available estimates of the number of people claiming unemployment related benefits in the UK. Source name: Nomis Collection name: Claimant county by sex and age Polarity: No polarity Polarity is how sentiment is measured "Sentiment is usually considered to have "poles" positive and negative these are often translated into "good" and "bad" sentiment analysis is considered useful to tell us what is good and bad in our information stream

At most qualification levels, white people aged 16 to 64 were the least likely to be unemployed out of all ethnic groups in 2022.

As of the first quarter of 2025, the claimant count rate of the West Midlands Metropolitan County was 7.7 percent, which was the highest among unitary authorities, metropolitan counties, and in London.

Claimant Count by sex for local and unitary authorities, counties and regions in the UK, published monthly. These are official statistics in development.

In July 2018, White British people were more likely than any other ethnic group to have been claiming Jobseeker’s Allowance for the longest time period.

The Labour Market Indicators spreadsheet for boroughs and regions will no longer be updated from March 2015. The final version from March 2015 will still be available to download at the bottom of this page. Most of the data is available within datasets elsewhere on the Datastore.

Workforce Jobs
Unemployment
Model based Unemployment for Boroughs
Claimant Count rates for Boroughs and Wards
Employment Rate Trends
Employment rates by Gender, Age and Disability
Number of Self Employed, Full and Part Time Employed
Employment by Occupation
Employment by Industry
Employment, Unemployment, Economic Activity and Inactivity Rates by Disability
Employment by Ethnicity
Economic Inactivity by Gender and Reason
Qualifications of Economically Active, Employed and Unemployed
Qualification levels of working-age population
Apprenticeship Starts and Achievements
Young People Not in Employment, Education or Training (NEET), Borough
19 year olds Qualified to NVQ Level 3
GCE A level examination results of 16-18 year olds
GCSE Results by Pupil Characteristics
People Claiming Out-of-Work Benefits
People Claiming Incapacity Benefit
Children Living in Workless Households
Gross Value Added, and Gross Disposable Household Income
Earnings by place of residence
Earnings by place of work
Business Demographics
Employment projections by sector
Jobs Density
Population Estimates
Population Migration

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Number of London residents of working age in employment
Employment rate
Number of male London residents of working age in employment
Male employment rate
Number of female London residents of working age in employment
Female employment rate
Workforce jobs
Jobs density
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Legacy unique identifier: P01045

In 2024/25 the UK government is expected to spend approximately ******billion British pounds on benefits, compared with the previous year when benefit expenditure was ******billion pounds.

This release will include a point in time number of households affected by the Benefit Cap, Local Authority geographical breakdown, main benefit type, tenure type, household type and number of children breakdowns.

Source agency: Work and Pensions

Designation: Official Statistics not designated as National Statistics

Language: English

Alternative title: Benefit Statistics

This release will include, a point in time number of households affected by the Benefit Cap, Local Authority geographical breakdown and main benefit type, tenure type, household type and number of children breakdowns.

Source agency: Work and Pensions

Designation: Official Statistics not designated as National Statistics

Language: English

Alternative title: Statistics and related information on Benefit Cap

Claimants of Jobseeker's Allowance resident in local and unitary authorities counties and regions in the UK. The estimates do not have National Statistics status. This dataset was discontinued in January 2021.

This statistic shows unemployment benefit spending as a percentage of GDP in the United Kingdom (UK) as forecasted from 2013 to 2060. Over the ** year period, the unemployment benefits share of GDP is projected to decrease to *** percent of GDP by 2030 and remain constant afterwards.

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The Great Britain Historical Database has been assembled as part of the ongoing Great Britain Historical GIS Project. The project aims to trace the emergence of the north-south divide in Britain and to provide a synoptic view of the human geography of Britain at sub-county scales. Further information about the project is available on A Vision of Britain webpages, where users can browse the database's documentation system online. The Great Britain Historical GIS Project has also produced digitised boundary data, which can be obtained from the UK Data Service Census Support service. Further information is available at census.ukdataservice.ac.uk Main Topics: The Great Britain Historical Database is a large database of British nineteenth and twentieth-century statistics. Where practical the referencing of spatial units has been integrated, data for different dates have been assembled into single tables. The Great Britain Historical Database currently contains :Statistics from the 1861 Census and the Registrar General's reports, 1851-1861 Employment statistics from the census, 1841-1931 Demographic statistics from the census, 1841-1931 Mortality statistics from the Registrar General's reports, 1861-1920 Marriage statistics from the Registrar General's reports, 1841-1870 Trade union statistics for the Amalgamated Society of Engineers (ASE), 1851-1918 Trade union statistics for the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners (ASCJ), 1863-1912 Official poor law statistics, 1859-1915 and 1919-1939 Wage statistics, 1845-1906 Hours of work statistics, 1900-1913 Small debt statistics from county courts, 1847-1913 and 1938 There are seven tables in this part of the Great Britain Historical Database : Ase_mr holds data for each branch of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers (ASE) taken from the Monthly Reports of the ASE from 1851 to 1912, and includes data about admissions, membership, unemployment benefit, strike pay, sickness benefit and pensions. Quarterly data from 1851 to 1872 and biannual data from 1873 to 1912. Ase_mr_95_96 holds a fuller version of the biannual data transcribed from the Monthly Reports of the ASE for 1895 and 1896, for which a special compressed format was used. Ase_admit holds annual admissions data for each branch taken from the Annual Reports of the ASE from 1853 to 1909. Ase_mem holds annual data about changes in membership for each branch taken from Annual Reports of the ASE for 1871 and 1872. Ase_fin holds summary annual data about the finances of the whole union taken from Annual Reports of the ASE from 1851 to 1918. Gaz_ase70 uniquely identifies individual ASE branches in existence between 1861 and 1871 and gives their location in 1871. Cj_mr holds biannual data for each branch of the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners (ASCJ) taken from the Monthly Reports of the ASCJ from 1863 to 1912 (excluding 1870 reports), and includes data about admissions, membership, unemployment benefit, strike pay, sickness benefit and pensions. Please note: this study does not include information on named individuals and would therefore not be useful for personal family history research.

Young people from the Chinese (4.5%) and Indian (7.3%) ethnic groups were less likely than the UK average (11.5%) to be not in employment, education or training.