{"id":1532,"date":"2019-06-19T19:34:05","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T19:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/?p=1532"},"modified":"2019-06-19T19:43:14","modified_gmt":"2019-06-19T19:43:14","slug":"scot-gov-news-ninth-quarter-of-continued-economic-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/scot-gov-news-ninth-quarter-of-continued-economic-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"Scot Gov News: Ninth quarter of continued economic growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Manufacturing and construction help grow the economy.<\/p>\n<p>The Scottish economy grew for the ninth consecutive quarter, according to official statistics.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The latest GDP figures show the Scottish economy grew by 0.5% in the first quarter of 2019. Compared to the same quarter last year, Scotland\u2019s GDP has grown by 1.4%.<\/p>\n<p>Growth across the quarter was driven by the manufacturing and construction sectors, which grew by 2.6% and 2% respectively.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Economy Secretary <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DerekMackaySNP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@DerekMackaySNP<\/a> welcomes the news this morning that  Scotland&#39;s economy continues to grow &#8211; for the ninth consecutive quarter  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GDPScotland?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#GDPScotland<\/a>  <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7l0wT0YaCr\">pic.twitter.com\/7l0wT0YaCr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read More: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tz2CkEYZrh\">https:\/\/t.co\/tz2CkEYZrh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; ScottishPoliticsNews  (@ScoPoliticsNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ScoPoliticsNews\/status\/1141383842210693121?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 19, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- responsive1 --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-slot=\"3379014842\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-8934562929349122\" data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Economy Secretary Derek Mackay said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith nine consecutive quarters of growth and a record high employment rate of 75.9%,  Scotland\u2019s economy continues to go from strength to strength.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGrowing the economy is a priority for the Scottish Government and we can see from these results it is working. We have provided more than \u00a35 billion of capital investment to build and modernise Scotland\u2019s infrastructure, and a wider package of support to businesses including maintaining a competitive business rates package and providing the most generous package of non-domestic rates reliefs anywhere in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe months and years ahead are crucial as we continue to invest in and grow the economy. However, the UK Government\u2019s EU exit plans, in whatever form, will damage the Scottish economy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Scottish Government has consistently been clear that the best option for the future wellbeing and prosperity of Scotland is to stay in the European Union. Otherwise we will see damage to our economy and the future prospects of the people of Scotland suffering.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe growth and economic stability currently being experienced in Scotland is seriously threatened by the UK Government\u2019s Brexit obsession. Indeed a no deal Brexit is set to take us from growth to recession.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manufacturing and construction help grow the economy. The Scottish economy grew for the ninth consecutive quarter, according to official statistics. The latest GDP figures show the Scottish economy grew by 0.5% in the first quarter of 2019. Compared to the same quarter last year, Scotland\u2019s GDP has grown by 1.4%. Growth across the quarter was driven by the manufacturing and construction sectors, which grew by 2.6% and 2% respectively. Economy Secretary @DerekMackaySNP welcomes the news this morning that Scotland&#39;s economy continues to grow &#8211; for the ninth consecutive quarter #GDPScotland&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":830,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1532"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1537,"href":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532\/revisions\/1537"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}