Claim: Over the past two years, employment is up.
Fact-check: Thérèse Coffey wrong to claim employment is up over the pandemic - Full Fact
Verdict: false. the number of people in employment fell by 580,000 and the employment rate  fell by 1 percentage point between the three months to february 2020 and the three months to january 2022.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Abbas Panjwani
Date published: 2022-04-11T00:00:00