"Figure 1: Employment rates by region and comparison year-on-year, seasonally adjusted, February to April 2017 and February to April 2018","" "UK regions","" "","" "Notes","" "Unit","%" "","" "","Feb 2018 to Apr 2018","Feb 2017 to Apr 2017" "North East","73.2","72.2" "North West","73.5","73.9" "Yorkshire and The Humber","74.2","73.5" "East Midlands","75.7","74.6" "West Midlands","74.0","71.8" "East ","78.6","77.4" "London","74.8","73.3" "South East","78.9","78.7" "South West","79.4","79.1" "Wales","73.3","72.9" "Scotland","75.2","74.1" "Northern Ireland","69.7","68.8" "UK","75.6","74.8"