Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Scotland – in the House of Commons at 2:30 pm on 23 January 2007.
David Cairns
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (also Scotland Office), Scotland Office, Parliamentary Under-Secretary (also Scotland Office), Northern Ireland Office
2:30,
23 January 2007
I do not have those figures here, but I am happy to write to the hon. Gentleman with them. Scotland and the Scottish economy have benefited from the inward migration of people from the accession states. Scotland has near record low levels of unemployment and near record high levels of economic activity. That situation never occurred during the 18 years when the hon. Gentleman's party was responsible for the economy.
