Unemployment falling in Truro and Falmouth

The Government’s extensive measures to promote business and job growth, such as increased business rates relief for small businesses and a reduction in unnecessary bureaucracy, are beginning to take effect in Truro and Falmouth.    

I was pleased to read the newly released figures from the Office of National Statistics last week which revealed that unemployment is continuing to fall in the Truro and Falmouth constituency.

The number of unemployed claimants in Truro and Falmouth in February 2011 was 1,543. This compares to the 1713 unemployed claimants recorded in the constituency in February 2010.

With the Work Programme, the Government’s key initiative to help people into work, taking effect later this year, and up to a hundred new highly skilled jobs being secured Falmouth Docks in the past month, I look forward to watching unemployment continuing to fall over the next year.

Other sources of job creation in Truro and Falmouth over the coming years include the construction, already begun, of a £13m Innovation Centre at Tremough, and Falmouth based marine drilling specialists Fugro Seacore’s £3 million contract to help install a pioneering wave energy device off Orkney.  

Growth and job creation continues to be the Government’s priority as the economy recovers from thirteen years of Labour mismanagement.