Dundee’s employment stage is at its highest stage for greater than 20 years it has been revealed.
The Workplace for Nationwide Statistics (ONS) annual inhabitants survey confirmed final month that the employment stage within the metropolis is at 73.6%, up 9.8% since 2017.
Council Chief, Councillor John Alexander, hailed the information as a sign of how “ a daring and impressive strategy is delivering outcomes”.
He stated Dundee has usually been recognized as one of many cities within the UK with the bottom employment stage, regularly that includes within the decrease quartile in league tables.
Councillor Alexander stated: “Over the past 5 years, we’ve made it our mission to create a robust basis for enterprise and jobs progress, coupled with our personal important funding plan of greater than £350 million and our proactive work to draw jobs and funding.
“Regardless of the challenges, Dundee continues to make its presence felt with a renewed confidence.
“Via my function as Chief of the Council and Chief of the Scottish Cities Alliance, I’ve seen how that proactive and decided strategy has opened doorways for our metropolis.
“I’ve had extra conferences with companies and traders within the final 3 years that at any time within the metropolis’s historical past and that's actual progress.”
Latest developments within the metropolis - together with the Waterfront Regeneration, the £300 million of funding via the Tay Cities Deal and the event of the previous Michelin website into an innovation Parc - are all contributing to employment.
Mr Alexander added: “Being Chief of the Council for the final 5 years has been the largest privilege of my life and our motivation has all the time been to enhance outcomes, so these figures are encouraging.
“We’ve by no means shied away from the challenges the town faces however now we have used these as our motivation for creating jobs.”
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Dundee Metropolis Council has performed an energetic function in shaping and creating the Michelin Scotland Innovation Parc, Waterfront and Tay Cities Deal.
These efforts, in accordance with Mr Alexander, are serving to flip heads within the investor world.
He stated: “I hope that this indicators, in a really possible way, that the efforts, ambitions and optimistic imaginative and prescient for the event of Dundee make a distinction.
“There’s rather more to return for our metropolis and I'll proceed, at the least till the election, to work laborious to carry extra jobs and funding in.
“I do know and perceive that the town has its detractors who haven’t all the time been satisfied by our technique however I hope that this reveals that a daring and impressive strategy is delivering outcomes.
“We're concentrating on delivering extra jobs in our Port, at Michelin, by supporting our rising tech and life sciences sectors and naturally, worldwide initiatives similar to EDEN.”
Past the direct funding and jobs creation, the council chief factors to vital interventions, led by the town which even have a optimistic impression, similar to residing wage accreditation.
Dundee turned the UK’s very first residing wage Metropolis and has spearheaded efforts to extend the numbers of employers paying the residing wage.
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