By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 5:30 PM on 26th August 2009
The number of jobless households has risen at its fastest rate since Labour came to power with almost five million people now living in homes where no one works.
New figures reveal a massive 4.8million people of working age now live in a home where no one holds down a job.
The data for April to June this year shows an increase of 500,000 on a year ago before the recession took a crippling grip on Britain.
The percentage of households where no adults work is now 16.9 per cent, up 1.1 per cent on 2008, according to the data from the Office for National Statistics.
It is the highest rate since 1999 and the largest year-on-year increase since 1997 when Labour came to power.
The data will fuel fears that the Government has cultivated a 'Shameless' generation dependent on the state and comes after the Daily Mail revealed at least five million people of working age have not done a day's work since Labour came to power.
The figure does not include the 1.9million children who now live in workless homes, which is up 170,000 on 2008.
Workless households now number 3.3million, up from 240,000, while working homes are at 10.7million - down 410,000.
A massive 40 per cent of single parent families are workless. The rate is highest in the north east at 23.2 per cent and lowest in the East of England at 12.2 per cent.
At the same time, an analysis of official data by the Tories shows that three million in England and Wales had no job between 1996 and 2001, while a further two million had never had a job.
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