{"id":444,"date":"2015-04-17T17:02:37","date_gmt":"2015-04-17T16:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recruitment-connection.co.uk\/?p=444"},"modified":"2015-04-23T17:04:19","modified_gmt":"2015-04-23T16:04:19","slug":"the-week-in-numbers-16th-april-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recruitment-connection.co.uk\/index.php\/2015\/04\/the-week-in-numbers-16th-april-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"The Week in Numbers &#8211; 16th April 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>0% &#8211;<\/strong><\/span> Rate of Inflation in the UK in March, according to the Office for National Statistics<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>\u00a310K \u2013<\/strong> <\/span>Annual allowance for savers earning more than \u00a3210,000, under plans outlined in the Conservative Manifesto<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>\u00a321K \u2013<\/strong> <\/span>Maximum government loan a person can receive under Help-To-Rent plans unveiled by the Liberal Democrats last week<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>42,200 \u2013<\/strong> <\/span>Number of PPI complaints that may have been rejected unfairly by Clydesdale Bank, according to the FCA<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>\u00a37.5bn \u2013<\/strong><\/span> Amount Labour says it will raise through policies to reduce tax avoidance and evasion<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>4 \u2013<\/strong><\/span> Number of FOS complaints upheld against advice firms relating to investments in Harlequin since the beginning of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Net balance of <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>4.2%<\/strong> <\/span>&#8211; of small firms have taken on new staff, up from a balance of<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"> <strong>2.1%<\/strong> <\/span>a year ago<\/p>\n<p>Businesses who have applied and been approved for a loan from their bank is up to <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>57%<\/strong><\/span> compared to <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>45.3%,<\/strong><\/span> 12 months ago<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>37%<\/strong><\/span> &#8211; of firms say a lack of skills are a barrier to growth compared to <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>25.4%<\/strong> <\/span>12 months ago.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"242\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-445\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recruitment-connection.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/admin-chart-300x242.jpg\" alt=\"admin chart\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.recruitment-connection.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/admin-chart-300x242.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.recruitment-connection.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/admin-chart.jpg 495w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Figures and articles originally published in Money Marketing Magazine 16<sup>th<\/sup> April 2015 or the magazine of the Federation of Small Businesses<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>0% &#8211; Rate of Inflation in the UK in March, according to the Office for National Statistics \u00a310K \u2013 Annual allowance for savers earning more than \u00a3210,000, under plans outlined in the Conservative Manifesto \u00a321K \u2013 Maximum government loan a person can receive under Help-To-Rent plans unveiled by the Liberal Democrats last week 42,200 \u2013 Number of PPI complaints that may have been rejected unfairly by Clydesdale Bank, according to the FCA \u00a37.5bn \u2013 Amount Labour says it will raise through policies to reduce tax avoidance and evasion 4 \u2013 Number of FOS complaints upheld against advice firms relating to&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"twitterCardType":"app","cardImageID":0,"cardImage":"","cardTitle":"","cardDesc":"","cardImageAlt":"","cardPlayer":"","cardPlayerWidth":0,"cardPlayerHeight":0,"cardPlayerStream":"","cardPlayerCodec":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-job"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.recruitment-connection.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.recruitment-connection.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.recruitment-connection.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.recruitment-connection.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.recruitment-connection.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.recruitment-connection.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":446,"href":"https:\/\/www.recruitment-connection.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions\/446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.recruitment-connection.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.recruitment-connection.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.recruitment-connection.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}