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Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 11 January 1996.

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Photo of Mr Michael Heseltine Mr Michael Heseltine First Secretary of State and Deputy Prime Minister 12:00, 11 January 1996

My hon. Friend is right to draw this matter to the attention of the House and of Scottish people in particular. Under the excellent conditions that the Government have created, 100 inward investment projects, worth more than £1 billion and creating or protecting some 12,000 jobs in 1994–95, were delivered to Scotland in that one year alone. There is no question but that the only thing that would flow from the introduction of a Labour Government and the consequent establishment of a tartan tax would be that inward investment, flowing not to Scotland but to England, Wales and Northern Ireland. That would be good news for everyone except the Scots.