§ 66. Mr. Hector Hughesasked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will specify the progress made in stopping the drift south from North-East Scotland of workers, male and female, with particular regard to skilled craftsmen and women, indicating their respective trades.
§ Mr. RossThe Government's new incentives to industrial investment which now apply to the whole North-East, and other measures, such as the provision of advance factories, are all helping to promote new growth there. The Economic Planning Consultative Group for the North-East has commissioned Aberdeen University to make a comprehensive survey of the economic resources of the North-East as a basis for further development. I am sorry that no detailed information of the occupations of people leaving the area is available.