LONDON: Britain’s unemployment rate remains at its lowest level in a decade, official data showed on Wednesday. Unemployment stood at 5.1 per cent in the three months to December, unchanged from the three months to November, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said in a statement. That was the lowest rate, or proportion of the workforce that are unemployed, since October 2005. The jobless total meanwhile sank 172,000 to 1.69 million people in the final quarter of last year compared with a year earlier. The ONS added that more than 31.4 million people are in work, which is the highest level since records began in 1971.