Trade, Industry and Employment

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Scotland – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 17 February 1965.

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Photo of Mr William Ross Mr William Ross , Kilmarnock 12:00, 17 February 1965

From projects for which industrial development certificates have been issued, the employment expected to accrue is 35,000, of which about 32,000 will be in the central belt, including Dundee. The rate of manning up varies, but on past experience about one-third of all these jobs might arise in 1965. There are no corresponding figures for the expansion of other types of employment, but in recent years employment in the service industries in Scotland has risen by an average of about 18,000 annually, and I can see no reason why this rate of increase should not be maintained.