59.4 per cent compared to 56.5 percent for the UK as a whole and for 16 to 24-year-old's it was 52.9 percent in Scotland compared to 50.2 per cent for the UK. The overall employment rate is also slightly higher in Scotland, at 70.7 per cent compared to...

Finance Secretary John Swinney yesterday cut the first turf at the site of the new Inverness College – hailed as Highlands’ most significant development for young people in years. The MSP marked the beginning of infrastructure works at the site of the...

North Korean terms. Until the SNP publish a definition of what it means by independence, people are quite entitled to assume it corresponds to their own idea of it. Some might see an independent Scotland which has to submit annual Scottish budgets to...

He used a speech to the Economic Development Association (Scotland), to claim that running a successful NHS and criminal justice system would benefit the economy. Mr Swinney said the government was working to secure investment in the NHS by working...

Bank of Scotland economists said it grew slightly faster in January compared to the previous month. But the employment rate was weaker than the UK as a whole, according to the bank's purchasing managers' index. Scottish Finance Secretary John Swinney...

On his part, his mistake was to invoke the Third Reich. The Nationalists might deny it, but words like that matter. In last week’s Scotsman, former John Swinney aide Ewan Crawford argued passionately against the use of the term separatism as a synonym...