Scotland’s economy is expected to continue growing in 2018, supported by an improved outlook for the oil and gas sector. Scotland’s economy is expected to continue growing in 2018, supported by an improved outlook for the oil and gas sector, according to the country’s latest state of the economy report. Independent forecasts highlighted in the document suggest that GDP growth will be between 0.7 and 1.3 percent in 2017 and between 0.7 and 1.4 percent in 2018. Oil and gas related production activities are expected to help drive productivity growth this year as the labour market remains tight. “The latest report further demonstrates the resilience of the Scottish economy during 2017 with encouraging signals of a slightly stronger outlook for the coming year,” the Scottish government’s economy secretary, Keith Brown, said in a government statement. “While growth has been more modest than we would have liked, we’ve seen growth […]