HC Deb 15 December 1988 vol 143 c672W
Mr. Ron Davies

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will provide details of any projections for the employment potential of forestry in rural areas of Scotland.

Lord James Douglas-Hamilton

By the turn of the century, forestry and the wood-processing industries could be providing directly some 17,000 jobs in Scotland, most of them in rural areas.

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