{"id":93280,"date":"2018-06-27T11:43:39","date_gmt":"2018-06-27T11:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=f8ca9b0f9df3d29dbf03cbe9bf544007"},"modified":"2018-06-27T11:43:39","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T11:43:39","slug":"news-story-scottish-gdp-figures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=93280","title":{"rendered":"News story: Scottish GDP figures"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Responding to the <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gov.scot\/Topics\/Statistics\/Browse\/Economy\/PubGDP\/GDP2018Q1\/\">Scottish GDP figures<\/a> published this morning, Secretary of State for Scotland David Mundell said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>It is good to see that Scotland\u2019s economy is growing &#8211; especially in the manufacturing sector &#8211; however, over the year, Scotland\u2019s economy has lagged behind the UK\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">The UK Government is investing to boost economic growth through its ambitious modern industrial strategy, and direct investment into Scotland\u2019s cities and regions through growth and city deals. The Scottish Government needs to work with us and use its extensive powers to make sure that it is supporting productivity and growth in Scotland.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secretary of State for Scotland welcomes growth in manufacturing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93280"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=93280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}