More than 13,000 Coventry people unemployed as numbers rise in one part of region

Unemployment has fallen across most of the country since the last election, despite the UK’s rising jobless rate - but large parts of Coventry and Warwickshire are falling behind.

The UK’s unemployment rate surged to 5% in the three months to September, up from 4.8% the previous quarter, and the highest since August 2016, excluding the pandemic period.

However, separate figures mapping unemployment in local areas show that most parliamentary constituencies have seen unemployment fall since Labour swept to office in July 2024, promising to tackle joblessness.

These figures are measured by counting the number of people claiming unemployment benefits in each parliamentary constituency, which is different to how the national unemployment rate is calculated.

They show that an estimate