The Office for National Statistics, using HMRC PAYE, puts the UK payroll headcount 26,000 lower from July to August, a 0.1 per cent step, at 30.2 million. The August row is provisional. The 16-64 employment rate sat at 75.1 percent over May-July. Financial Times and BBC business pages checked on 15 September did not carry their own matching payroll drop.
The ONS HMRC PAYE table cuts UK payrolled employees by 26,000 people from July to August, a 0.1 percent step. The new level is 30.2 million. The August row is provisional. The employment rate for ages 16 to 64 was 75.1 percent over May-July. The bulletin does not claim a company collapse or a budget vote; the text is a payroll count. The card does not name a single ground for the drop.[1]
The August payroll estimate was 145,000 people, 0.5 percent, lower than a year earlier. Unemployment for ages 16 and over was 4.9 percent in May to July. Inactivity at ages 16-64 was 20.9 percent. The August Claimant Count sat, provisionally, at 1.692 million. Open jobs from June through August radar fell by 8.000 to 702,000. Those rows continue the same September bulletin; they are not a second labour-force survey invented here.[1]
The 26,000 August drop and the 30.2 million level sit in the same ONS bulletin. The Financial Times and BBC business pages and feeds on 15 September did not carry their own matching HMRC PAYE headline. The card does not treat 30.2 million as a jobs boom or a crisis call. The figure is a payroll estimate. The second-publisher check was empty; no second source was invented.[1]
