SCOTLAND's economic performance in the year to March is much poorer than that UK-wide, even though the renewed recession is shallower north of the Border, latest official data show.
And Scotland is further adrift of its peak in economic output before the "Great Recession" of 2008/09 than the UK as a whole.
Comparing the year to March 31 with the prior 12 months, Scottish Government data published yesterday show gross domestic product was up just 0.2% in Scotland but by 0.6% UK-wide on the "gross value added" measure.
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