Chamber
Meeting of the Parliament 27 January 2011
27 Jan 2011 · S3 · Meeting of the Parliament
Item of business
Scottish Executive Question Time
Unemployment (North East Scotland)
Finance and Sustainable Growth
Yesterday, Labour said that the budget ought to be about jobs. That is certainly what is needed in the north-east, where there are threatened compulsory redundancies at Aberdeen City Council, where unemployment is hitting one in 10 in far too many areas in Dundee, and, crucially, where the affordable housing investment budget is less than half what it was four years ago in real terms. How is the minister planning to use his powers to mitigate the effects of that unemployment?
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Marlyn Glen (North East Scotland) (Lab)
Lab
16. To ask the Scottish Executive what measures it is financing to tackle unemployment in North East Scotland. (S3O-12763)
The Minister for Enterprise, Energy and Tourism (Jim Mather)
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Marlyn Glen
Lab
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Jim Mather
SNP
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