Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Trade and Commerce – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 16 May 1963.
Of the 2,000 jobs estimated to arise from projects in Fife for which assistance has been offered under the Act about 450 have already arisen. I cannot say how many existing jobs have been lost, but I understand that about 2,000 redundancies have been notified to the Ministry of Labour since April, 1960.