Oral Answers to Questions - Scotland: Employment Opportunities (20 Jun 2012)
http://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2012-06-20a.846.7&s=speaker%3A10267#g847.5 Oliver Heald: Does the Secretary of State agree that by cutting corporation tax, reducing regulation and, at the same time, having the largest Work programme the country has ever seen, we are succeeding in Scotland, with 14,000 fewer unemployed people this month-the third month in a row?
Michael Moore (Secretary of State, Scotland; Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk, Liberal Democrat)
I certainly welcome the reduction in unemployment, but we need to recognise that things will continue to be challenging for people the length and breadth of Scotland and the rest of the UK. My hon. Friend is right, though, that our measures to get the economy back on the right track are fundamentally right and are the way to create secure jobs.