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.

answeredDepartment for Energy Security and Net Zero

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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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  1. 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.

  2. 23 Jan 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 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...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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