Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Wales – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 20 January 1997.
Mr Simon Coombs
, Swindon
12:00,
20 January 1997
Is not unemployment now far higher in Germany than in Wales? Is that not a consequence of the fact that more and more German firms are relocating their investment to Wales because they recognise the advantages of doing so? Is it not also a fact that, for every German who will lose his job as a consequence, there is another who is beginning to wish that Germany had never signed up to the social chapter and the other high social costs with which the German economy is now burdened?