Wales has seen a fall in unemployment bucking the UK picture where the level remains at a four-year high.

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said the rate of UK unemployment remained at 4.7% in the three months to June. For Wales the rate was 4.3%, down 0.9% on the quarter. The number of working age adults unemployed in Wales was 67,000 (down 13,000 on the quarter) and 1.67m million for the UK. Although on previous year unemployment in Wales was up 11,000.

The percentage of working age adults in employment in Wales was 71.8% (1.47 million people). The employment rate is the lowest of any UK nation or region. For the UK as whole employment was 75.3%. For England it was 75.6%, Scotland 75.1% and Northern Ireland 71.6%.

The number of economic inactively in Wales - defined as those no

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