Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Wales – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 27 April 1987.
All I can say—it is an absolute fact—is that unemployment has fallen more rapidly and for a longer period in Wales than in any other region of the United Kingdom and that the relative position of Wales in the unemployment tables has improved markedly during the past 12 months. I am confident that that process will continue.