§ Mr. Gordon Wilsonasked the Secretary of State for Scotland what has been the net gain or loss of jobs in Dundee in the last three years; and what effect regional policy has had on the situation.
§ Mr. Gregor MacKenzieThe latest three-year period for which employment figures are available for the Department402W of Employment Dundee local office area is June 1972 to June 1975 when employment grew by 5,900. The figures for employees in employment were:
June 1972 87,400 June 1973 90,200 June 1974 91,200 June 1975 93,300 Throughout the last three years Dundee has been in a development area qualifying for the full range of Government assistance to industry, but it is not possible to give a meaningful estimate of the effect on employment of the availability of that assistance.