§ Mr. Home RobertsonTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will give an estimate of the effect on job numbers in rural Scotland of(a) the current common agricultural policy reform package and (b) further changes arising from the GATT agreement; and if he will make a statement.
§ Sir Hector Monro[holding answer 2 December 1992]: The impact of the CAP measures agreed in May on employment in rural Scotland will depend on the response of the farming community over the next few years. The draft GATT settlement is consonant with those reform measures and should therefore have no separate employment impact.