• Employment rate for those aged from 16 to 64 was 71.5%, down 0.1 percentage points from November 2012 to January 2013
• up 0.7 percentage points from a year earlier.
• 29.76 million people in employment aged 16 and over, up 24,000 from November 2012 to January 2013
• up 432,000 from a year earlier.
• unemployment rate was 7.8%, unchanged from November 2012 to January 2013
• down 0.4 percentage points from a year earlier
• 2.51 million unemployed people, down 5,000 from November 2012 to January 2013 and down 88,000 from a year earlier
• number employed in public sector at lowest level since 2001 at 5.7million
• number of people claiming jobseeker’s allowance last month fell by 8,600 to 1.51 million

That last number one for the Tories to cling on to…