Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Treasury – in the House of Commons at 11:30 am on 10 March 2015.
Robert Smith
Liberal Democrat, West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine
11:30,
10 March 2015
I thank the Chief Secretary to the Treasury for recognising the problems in the North sea. Does he also recognise that the job losses that have been announced predate the fall in the oil price, and that it is crucial that in the Budget we see long-term structural change for the maturity of the province?