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2021-01-26 17:05:30 GMT2021-01-27 01:05:30(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
LONDON, Jan. 26 (Xinhua) The COVID-19 pandemic sent unemployment rate in London rocketing to 6.9 percent from September to November 2020, the highest level in Britain, prompting the London Assembly to make a call on Tuesday for an urgent action.
The 25-member assembly made the call in response to London s latest unemployment data, published by the British Office for National Statistics (ONS) on Tuesday.
Between September and November 2020, the unemployment rate across Britain rose to 5 percent, but for the three months London had the highest unemployment rate estimate in the country at 6.9 percent.
LONDON, Jan. 26 (Xinhua) The COVID-19 pandemic sent unemployment rate in London rocketing to 6.9 percent from September to November 2020, the highest level in Britain, prompting the London Assembly to make a call on Tuesday for an urgent action. The 25-member assembly made the call in response to London s latest unemployment data, published by the British Office for National Statistics (ONS) on Tuesday. Between September and November 2020, the unemployment rate across Britain rose to 5 percent, but for the three months London had the highest unemployment rate estimate in the country at 6.9 percent. Leonie Cooper, chair of the London Assembly Economy Committee said, Today s figures showing current unemployment levels in London are shocking, and are another stark reminder of the impact that COVID-19 has had on our economy.
The London Assembly s economy committee decided to postpone a vote on a trialling universal basic income in London. Credit: GLA/Newsquest A vote on whether or not to recommend a trial of universal basic income (UBI) in London has been delayed following a meeting of the London Assembly. Any decision on a potential UBI trial will now likely have to wait until March after the Assembly’s economy committee today opted not to hold a vote, having put questions to expert guests. The motion was originally introduced at a previous meeting of the Assembly by Green Party AM Sian Berry and Liberal Democrat AM Caroline Pigeon, where it was passed to the economy committee for consideration.