Government hails unemployment fall

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The Government has welcomed a fall in unemployment and benefit claimants and a big increase in the number of people in work.

Almost 30 million people were in employment at the end of 2012, the highest since records began in 1971, while jobseeker's allowance claimants fell to a near two-year low
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