asked the President of the Board of Trade what are his further short-and long-term plans for increasing trade and industry in northeast Scotland.

My aims for north-east Scotland continue to be the active encouragement of trade and industry by making full use in the development districts there of my powers under the Local Employment Acts to assist the establishment of new industries and the expansion of those already existing.

In thanking my right hon. Friend for his successful efforts and visits to Aberdeen, may I ask him to particularise the factories which he has in mind and the trades which fall within his immediate plan?

As my hon. and learned Friend knows, we are proposing to build a new advance factory in Aberdeen. I am glad to say that under the present Government, unemployment in Aberdeen, as in most parts of the country, has fallen during the past year.