Unemployment was down 0.1% from March to May 2013 with 2.49m people unemployed and 0.2% from a year earlier. Inactivity was at 22.2% down 0.2% from March to May and 0.3% from last year to 8.95m people.
The number of employees increased by 102,000 to 25.38m, the number of self-employed increased by 34,000 to 4.21m, the number of unpaid family workers increased to 116,000, the number of people on government schemes but classified as being in employment increased by 8,000 to 168,000.
Total pay rose by 0.7% to £474/week. Regular pay rose by 0.8% to £447/week.
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