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I believe that the employment and job consequences of the investment package are considerable. We know that new capital investment—new schools, new hospitals and new roads—generates employment in the construction industry.
We should make a list of organisations to visit. We could go in groups of two or three, but we must get organised soon, as the visits will take time to arrange.
The information is available for each local authority area.Information is currently available up to the end of September 2001. Figures for the latest quarter July-September 2001 were published in Table 8 of the Scottish Executive Quarterly Housing Trends Bulletin HSG/2002/1.
To ask the Scottish Executive why Scottish economic growth rates have failed to match UK growth rates in recent years. Latest data show that quarterly growth in Scotland is broadly in line with the UK, although year on year growth is slower.
We think that people there have taken the right decision, as they are going to be able to unlock a huge amount of funding. As he mentioned, some 300 new homes in the Western Isles is good news.