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This shows that in 2001 (the latest year available), Scottish GDP wasestimated to be £69.2 billion at current basic prices, resulting in an averageGDP per economically active person (2001 June-Aug Labour Force Survey) of£27,500.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
21 August 2001
The drop of one percentage point referred to in the question relates to the percentage point difference in the proportion of children in low income households in Scotland between 1997-98 and the latest 1999-2000 figures. The Households Below Average Income Survey results demonstrate steady progress in reducing the proportion of children living in low income...
The cash-terms increase that you have outlined is about 3.7 per cent; the latest estimated increase in average earnings for the year to which that refers is 4.7 per cent.
Do you accept that, as part of the process of trying to work its way towards a new policy, a council can determine a pilot scheme in a particular area?
Information is kept on the basis of numbers of visits rather than visitors. The figures given, therefore, include both individual high-profile visitors and group visits to the Parliament.)