The Minister for Finance andPublic Service Reform was not on Newsnight Scotland on 14 December 2006 soI am unable to source the comments you refer to and therefore to directly addressthe matter you have raised.However, the latest statisticsshow that since 1997 the number of individuals living in households in relativelow income (after housing costs) has been reduced by 320,000, from 25% to 18% -a reduction of 26%.