 Unemployment in the region stood at 41,000 (3½%), compared to 115,000 (12%) before the War.Outside the main development area, major projects included a new industrial estate in Dundee, diversifying local industry away from a dependence on jute, and the Inverness area becoming a scheduled area in 1948, to develop industry in tandem with a new hydro-electric power scheme.In Wales, most of the industrial areas in South Wales were scheduled as a development area, along with the Wrexham region in the north.