Claim: Scotland's youth unemployment rate fell by 0.3 percentage points over the last year.
Fact-check: Scottish government uses non-official data on youth unemployment - Full Fact
Verdict: this is based on experimental data so isn't a "national statistic". the most reliable data shows that youth unemployment in scotland increased by 0.8 percentage points  in the year to july 2019, compared to the year before.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Joël Reland
Date published: 2019-11-15T00:00:00