The number of unemployed claimants on the Isle of Wight has dropped for the first time our recent memory.
According to the Office for National Statistics, the number of unemployed claimants on the Island in April 2011, dropped to 2,973.
The number of claimants is 451 lower than in April 2010 and 584 lower than in March 2011. These data are not seasonally adjusted.
This represents a rate of 4.9% of the economically active population aged 16 to 64, the 230th highest of the 650 UK constituencies.
