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To ask the Scottish Executive how many jobs in (a) Scotland and (b) the highlands and islands have been dependent on fisheries in each year since 1979, expressed also per capita and outlining the methodology used to classify the jobs.
We are, however, engaged in discussions, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer suggested moving to a housing credit system, which would be rather like the working families tax credit, but a specific housing credit.
There have therefore been technical issues. The Government is due credit for improvements in the construction of contracts, although I think that a lot more can be done.
It is therefore essential that we analyse need and that we look at income levels and household information within those quartiles or deciles—whatever the expression is—of the population who cannot meet their aspirations.
At best, we are declining; at worst, in real terms, we are de-enterprising and going backwards.On Scottish economic growth, Scotland has had lower growth levels, historically, than the rest of the United Kingdom.
Although I am happy to debate with the minister the procedures that she used to give the information, the kernel of my question is why she should get any credit for going some way to resolving a problem that she instigated.
I hope that we hear more than toujours les platitudes all over again but, after Elliot Morley's performance in the House of Commons yesterday, I do not hold out much hope of that happening.