"Figure 1: Employment rates by region and comparison year-on-year, seasonally adjusted, October to December 2016 and October to December 2017","" "UK regions","" "","" "Notes","" "Unit","%" "","" "","October to December 2017","October to December 2016" "North East","72.0","70.4" "North West","73.7","73.1" "Yorkshire and The Humber","73.2","73.5" "East Midlands","75.1","75.7" "West Midlands","72.3","72.3" "East ","78.2","76.6" "London","74.5","73.7" "South East","79.9","78.2" "South West","78.6","77.4" "Wales","72.7","72.4" "Scotland","74.3","73.5" "Northern Ireland","68.7","69.3" "UK","75.2","74.6"