Part of 2. 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 2:12 pm on 3 October 2017.
Isn’t it true, though, First Minister, that despite what you said about unemployment levels—and that is welcome; they dipped below the UK average for a period in the early 1990s as well, didn’t they? But the problem is in terms of income, in terms of prosperity. You can choose any number of a basket of indicators, whether it’s average earnings, household disposable income, gross value added per capita, income per hour worked, et cetera. We have gone backwards compared with where we were at the beginning of devolution, and that wasn’t what was promised. So, where are we going wrong and what is the indicator—how are we going to measure the, hopefully, success that will come at some point in the future?