Current status: Answered by Jim Wallace on 22 January 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many of the jobs created, or relocated, as a result of the M74 extension will be taken by currently unemployed residents in the Glasgow area.
Twenty-five thousand jobsare expected to be created following completion of the M74. It is not possibleto say how these jobs will be filled but the local authorities and localenterprise companies are taking steps to ensure that local residents areequipped with the skills to allow them to compete.