ACCORDING to the Government, the policies it has introduced have reduced unemployment and increased employment.
Recently a Parliamentary Committee revealed that austerity measures introduced by the previous Coalition Government, and continued by the present, had between 2014 and 2015 increased homelessness within Britain by 30 per cent.
When someone becomes homeless and is forced to live on the streets, they no longer claim unemployment benefits.
By no longer claiming unemployment benefits they leave the unemployment register and no longer count as unemployed.
The unemployment figures are reduced, the Government then uses these figures to claim that its policies have decreased unemployment and increased employment.
As demand for private housing decreases and demand for rented increases; combined with the continuation of the Bedroom Tax, cuts in benefits and continuing austerity measures, levels of homelessness within Britain will increase and more fellow Britons find will longer appear on the unemployment register.
We can look forward to the Government telling us how its policies have once again reduced unemployment and increased employment.
C McArt, Spennymoor
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