Economic Activity

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Wales – in the House of Commons at 11:30 am on 17 March 2010.

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Photo of Wayne David Wayne David The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Wales 11:30, 17 March 2010

Employment figures in Wales are higher than they have been for a long time and compare very favourably with the situation in Wales under the previous Conservative Government. The hon. Gentleman asked specifically about economic inactivity, which has fallen by 0.5 per cent. in Wales. That is enormously significant. I remember what happened to economic inactivity when the Conservatives were last in power: all the pits were closed, and a generation of the work force was thrown on to the dole and forgotten about. That will never happen again, under us.

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