Unemployment will rise to more than three million over the next two years, according to Treasury forecasts disclosed yesterday. The figures show ministers are prepared for the amount spent on joblessness benefit almost to double by the spring of 2011.
Last week a Bank of England official said it was possible that that unemployment could rise to four million, a figure that would surpass the record 3.3million on the dole during the deep recession of the early 1980s.
The Treasury calculations suggest the Government expects to spend just over £2billion on Jobseeker's Allowance, the main benefit for the unemployed looking for work, in the financial year that ends today.
However the amount needed to pay the benefit is expected to rise to £3.25billion over the next 12 months, and to £3.8billion in 2010-11.
Revealed to MPs in answer to a parliamentary question from former Labour minister Frank Field, this rise is predicted to increase costs to taxpayers by 84 per cent.
It is thought 2.5million will be unemployed by the spring of 2011.
Last month the claimant count rose by 138,400, the largest monthly increase since modern counting methods began in 1971 continues here
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