A powerful Commons committee has ordered the Liberal Democrat cabinet member to update the official record.

Mr Moore's answers to questions by shadow Scottish Secretary Margaret Curran were "unsatisfactory", it ruled.

And it has said Mr Moore should publish an adequate answer in Hansard, parliament's official report. Labour accused the Scottish Secretary of trying to dodge questions about unemployment levels.

A spokesman for the party said: "For some time it's been clear Michael Moore doesn't want to answer questions about the consequences of his Government's failed economic policies; now we have it in black and white.

"Straight questions about the number of people who are unemployed in Scotland deserve straight answers.

"Hopefully we might start to get them now."

Ms Curran had asked Mr Moore how many people in Scotland have been unemployed for two years or more in each month since May 2010, when the Tory-Lib Dem Coalition came to power.

She had also inquired where any new jobs created between February and April 2013 were located and what proportion were part-time as well as full-time.

Last month, Conservative MP Charles Walker, who chairs the Commons Procedure Committee, wrote to Mr Moore upholding Mrs Curran's complaint that his initial answers had been unsatisfactory.

"We therefore request that you take immediate steps to answer these questions," he wrote. "You should also seek to publish them in Hansard."

Mr Moore issued a written ministerial statement giving the updated answers yesterday.