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I also remind him that it is good news—in my mind, although obviously not in his—if a firm looks at a possible market, believes that it can get into that market and create employment, and is putting £10 million of its own money up front for that purpose.
At the moment, for example, Scottish MPs are examining the new deal. I know that Mr Salmond will join me in rejoicing at the fact that, during the past 18 months, youth unemployment in Scotland has been cut by 59 per cent, which is excellent.
Programme Individuals into Jobs in Dumbarton New Deal for Young People (NDYP) 1,580 New Deal 25 plus (ND25+) 600 New Deal for Lone Parents (NDLP) 820 New Deal 50 plus (ND50+) 120 New Deal for Partners (NDP) 10 Source: Department for Work andPensions, Information Directorate.Notes:1.
There has to be some form of voluntary regulation to integrate home safety so that the kind of activity that should happen does happen.My personal experience, from living in my constituency, is that I have not noticed many home safety visits taking place. I am sure that the same is true of other members.
As committee members will recall, the financial framework for the European budget 2007-2013 predominated during our visit to Brussels earlier this year. Alyn Smith's letter is effectively a covering letter for a report prepared by Mr Böge—whom we met when we were in Brussels—charting a compromise position of an EU budget that is 1.07 per cent of EU gross na...