Question follow-through · 24834
Offshore Industry: Employment
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.
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- Answering body
- Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
- Tabled
- 20 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 23 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 23 Jan 2025 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
20 Jan 2025
Question tabled
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.
23 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
23 Jan 2025
Answer published
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...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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