The Office for National Statistics shows that the employment rate for the three months to April 2010 was 72.1 per cent, down 0.1 on the quarter. There was a small increase of 5,000 in the number of people in employment compared with the previous quarter to reach 28.86 million. Furthermore, the number of people unemployed for more than twelve months increased by 85,000 over the quarter to reach 772,000, the highest figure since the three months to April 1997. There were 5.2 unemployed people per vacancy, up 0.1 on the quarter.