HC Deb 14 May 1971 vol 817 cc184-5W
Mr. Adam Hunter

asked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry how many new jobs are in the pipeline to be created in Scotland at present; and how this compares with the situation in June, 1970.

Mr. Anthony Grant

Projects in authorised new industrial buildings and in industrial buildings taken over by manufacturing industry known to the Department at 30th April this year were estimated to provide some 40,900 jobs in the next four years. A comparable estimate at June, 1970, for the then succeeding four years would have been some 39,400 jobs.