The UK’s employment rate has hit its highest point since comparable records began in 1971 for the second successive month.

Office for National Statistics data for the three months July to September 2015, released this morning, reveal an employment rate (the proportion of people aged from 16 to 64 who were in work) of 73.7%, up from 73.6% in the June to August period.

According to the data, 31.21m people were in work, 177,000 more than for April to June 2015 and 419,000 more than for a year earlier.

Meanwhile, the unemployment rate fell to a seven-year low of 5.3% with the number of people out of work falling by 103,000 between July and September to 1.75m.

Employment rose across all age groups except 35-49-year-olds.

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