"Figure 1: Employment rates by region and comparison year-on-year, seasonally adjusted, January to March 2016 and January to March 2017","" "UK regions","" "","" "Notes","" "Unit","%" "","" "","Jan to Mar 2017","Jan to Mar 2016" "North East","71.6","70.3" "North West","74.0","73.1" "Yorkshire and The Humber","73.9","72.0" "East Midlands","75.6","74.4" "West Midlands","71.4","71.6" "East ","77.5","77.4" "London","73.3","73.3" "South East","78.4","78.2" "South West","78.7","77.1" "Wales","73.7","72.5" "Scotland","74.0","73.2" "Northern Ireland","68.4","69.2" "UK","74.8","74.1"