Inward Investment

Part of Question Time — scottish executive – in the Scottish Parliament at 2:30 pm on 5 October 2000.

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Photo of Henry McLeish Henry McLeish Labour 2:30, 5 October 2000

Part of the response that I gave indicated that Locate in Scotland, Scottish Enterprise and all the enterprise agencies will be working hard to achieve that in Glasgow. However, it is important to point out that 84 per cent of all employment in the city is in services. While we are attracting manufacturing to Glasgow and to Scotland, we must consider the current distribution of employment. For the record, in the past six years, Glasgow has had 230 offers of investment from regional selective assistance accepted. The value of offers is more than £70 million and the associated project costs are worth more than £400 million. That has helped to create or safeguard more than 13,500 jobs.

A great deal is being done. That was demonstrated this week, for example, by the £60 million private investment in a new science quarter in the city of Glasgow, bringing software engineering jobs and a whole host more. Positive developments are taking place, which, I hope, will be supported by everyone in the Parliament.