§ Mr. Sillarsasked the Secretary of State for Scotland how many new miles of motorway or dual-carriageway have been constructed in Scotland in the past five years.
678Wexpected to result from redundancies arising out of cuts in local government.
§ Mr. MillanThe main transfer concerns 7,000 Civil Service jobs, 6,000 from the Ministry of Defence and 1,000 from the Ministry of Overseas Development, to be dispersed from London to the Glasgow area. It is not possible at this stage to forecast the number of staff who will move with their jobs nor therefore how many vanacies will be filled by local recruitment, but there will undoubtedly be a significant gain in local employment opportunities.
Comparisons with local authority staffs are not possible since the authorities have not reported fully on any proposals they may have to reduce staffing levels.