Energy: Industry

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy written question – answered at on 1 March 2018.

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Photo of Henry Bellingham Henry Bellingham Conservative, North West Norfolk

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many people are employed in the energy sector; and if he will make a statement.

Photo of Claire Perry Claire Perry The Minister of State, Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, Minister of State (Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy) (Energy and Clean Growth)

The energy industries directly employed 178,000 people in 2016. Further jobs are supported indirectly, for example, an estimated 152,000 were employed in support of UK oil and gas extraction, while the ONS separately estimates that the low carbon electricity sector employed 40,500 in the supply chain.

Source: Table 2 of UK Energy in Brief https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/631147/UK_Energy_in_Brief_2017_dataset.xls

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