Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Scotland – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 13 July 1983.
David Marshall
, Glasgow Shettleston
12:00,
13 July 1983
Will the Minister confirm that there is an unacceptably high level of undeveloped and empty sites in the east end of Glasgow? Will he instruct the Scottish Development Agency to purchase the 64-acre site that was formerly occupied by Parkhead Forge, which the Government refused to help keep in business last year? Is he not ashamed of the fact that 60 per cent. of young people are unemployed in the east end of Glasgow? Will he instruct the SDA to do something about the number of empty and derelict sites, in a bid to combat youth unemployment?
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