§ Annabelle EwingTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what estimate his Department has made of the number of jobs in Scotland dependent upon the mineral water industry. [162989]
§ Mrs. McGuireThe Scotland Office has made no such estimation of job numbers dependent upon the mineral water industry.
The most recent Scottish Executive figures illustrate that the wider bottled water and soft drinks industry directly employed 1,933 people in Scotland in 2002.