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October 12, 2021
Labour’s Neil Bibby has taken his campaign for a fair deal for West Scotland back to the Scottish Parliament.
The Scottish Government scrapped targets requiring action to close the employment gap between Scotland’s most and least well-off regions. With mounting concern over the economic fall-out of Covid, Neil Bibby is calling for action from Ministers to force regional inequality back up the political agenda.
The West of Scotland is home to communities that rank among the hardest hit by the pandemic, including areas with higher than average unemployment and some of the most deprived datazones in Scotland.
Neil Bibby MSP said:
“Crisis-hit communities cannot be left behind as Scotland builds out of the Covid crisis. The pandemic has hit parts of the West harder than the country as a whole and shone a light on entrenched inequalities holding our region back.
“Parts of the West of Scotland experience the highest unemployment and the greatest deprivation in the entire country. The economy isn’t working for the West and if government is seriously going to build back to something better then it must confront regional inequalities neglected for too long.
“Clear, ambitious, new targets can drive change and put the gap between Scotland’s regions back on the political agenda. The West deserves a much fairer deal from the Scottish Government, with our fair share of investment and a stronger recovery that works for the West’s left-behind communities.”
