Written questions

Offshore Industry: Employment

Commons · Question 24834 · Tabled 20 Jan 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero · Official record

Answered 23 Jan 2025

Question

Asked by Grahame Morris

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what estimate his Department has made of the number of jobs in the decommissioning sector of the offshore oil and gas industry in each financial year from 2013-14 and 2024-25.

Answer

Answered by Michael Shanks, 23 Jan 2025

No such estimates have been made. The planning and delivery of decommissioning is often integrated into the organisational capabilities of upstream oil and gas operators and supply chain companies. It is therefore difficult to determine how many of this w...