Speng Bond - Cut Backs - plus TUC says bleak unemployment outlook for Black Youth in Britain

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The TUC analysis of the Labour Force Survey coincided with its annual Black Workers' Conference . The figures show that the unemployment rate for black and asian workers increased from 10.2 per cent in October-December 2007 to 13 per cent in the same quarter last year (a figure almost twice as high as the 7.1 per cent unemployment rate for white individuals).

The research reveals an even bleaker picture for young people from ethnic minority backgrounds, with the unemployment rate for 18-24 year-olds leaping from 20.1 per cent in 2007 to 30.5 per cent in 2010. In contrast, the unemployment rate for white youngsters stands at 16.4 per cent.

And while there are still more black young men out of work that women - at the end of 2010 there were almost 63,000 young males without jobs compared to just over 53,000 young women - the rate of increase in unemployment over the three years since 2007 has been a shocking 68 per cent for young black women, with a 24 per cent increase for men.

The figures also show that around 640,000 black and Asian people work in the public sector, so significant cuts to public spending will only make the situation worse, says the TUC. It estimates that public sector job cuts of around 20 per cent would be likely to put around another 127,000 black workers on the dole.