Economic Recovery Plan

As an amendment to motion S3M-06129 in the name of John Swinney (Economic Recovery Plan), leave out from “through” to end and insert “; notes with concern that Scotland’s economic recovery is lagging behind that of the United Kingdom as a whole, with unemployment rising in the last quarter by 16,000 while falling across the UK by 33,000; further notes that two thirds of all jobs lost in the UK were in Scotland, and believes that the Scottish Government’s cuts to key budgets in areas of economic growth, including enterprise, housing, regeneration and tourism, the failure of the Scottish Futures Trust and the cancellation of projects such as the Glasgow Airport Rail Link, with the loss of 1,300 potential jobs, risk entrenching Scotland’s relative economic decline compared with the rest of the UK under the SNP.”