Accuracy Of The Unemployment Figures

EDM number 525 in 1996-97, proposed by Greville Janner on 12/02/1997.

That this House draws attention to the Government's fraudulent unemployment figures which ignore the latest Labourforce Survey which shows unemployment about 302,000 higher than the Government's claimant count and further ignores the findings of the Employment Policy Institute that the number of jobless people who say that they want a job is well over four million, and not the 1.8 million registered by the Government's deliberately flawed claimant count; and calls on the Government to come clean on the true level of unemployment and the job insecurity and human sufdfering that unemployment causes in pre-election Britain.

This motion has been signed by a total of 95 MPs.