Economic Growth: Scotland
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what steps he is taking with Cabinet colleagues to support economic growth in Scotland.
Answered by Kirsty McNeill
Our Plan for Change is creating jobs, driving growth and delivering for Scotland.
Our recent trade mission to India, resulted in a raft of major new deals leading to more than 100 brand new jobs in Scotland.
This comes on the back of Norway’s decision to select Glasgow-built warships bringing billions of pounds into the Scottish economy securing thousands of jobs.
The Clean Energy Jobs Plan to train up the next generation of clean energy workers will recruit over 40,000 workers into clean energy jobs in Scotland by 2030.
And of course our focus as a Labour government is ensuring that people don’t only have access to work, but that work pays - and that’s why we have ensured a pay rise for 200,000 of the lowest paid Scots.
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