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It was incredibly difficult for us to produce our own costings in the middle of recess. We had the best help possible from SPICe and we tried to pull together information from a range of options, but none of us had previously attempted to undergo that process or been aware that it existed.
As we emerged from the most recent recession, the period of exceptional growth in employment was not matched by similarly positive levels of wage growth, although that trend shows signs of reversing.
We have shown our resilience in the fact that GDP per head has recovered more strongly in Scotland than it has in the UK; it has reached 2.1 per cent above the pre-recession level in Scotland, but only 1.2 per cent above it in the UK.
There is a very clear understanding that we find ourselves in exceptional circumstances; this recession looks different to more normal recessions, if I can use that term.
We are still outperforming the rest of the UK in house building in Scotland, even after the recession. The member is talking about pre-recession, private house building.
I look to other European countries large and small that, despite the global economic recession, have youth unemployment rates of less than 10 per cent.