The Office for National Statistics also confirmed there are now 1.63 million people claiming Job Seekers Allowance.
The jobless rate now stands at 7.9 per cent and unemployment is at its highest in 14 years.
Employment minister Jim Knight told the BBC there are 946,000 people aged between 16 and 24 currently out of work - a rise of 19,000 during the three months.
He said the government expected unemployment to rise over the coming months.
Mr Knight refused to be drawn on how high the figure would rise before it levelled out though, with some financial analysts predicting it may pass three million.
Commenting on the figures, Alan Tomlinson, from the insolvency practitioners, Tomlinsons, said: 'Unemployment will continue to rise as long as businesses continue to struggle, and a significant number of businesses, SMEs in particular, are still fighting to survive.
'Turnover is depressed, cash flow is uncertain and margins are squeezed and so in order to stay afloat companies are having to make economies, the first of which, unfortunately, is to reduce headcount. And in many cases even that won't be enough to stop them going out of business.'
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