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PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Wind Power (8 June 2015)

Question Asked

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what estimate his Department has made of the number of jobs contributed by onshore wind to the UK economy in each year since 2010.

Asked by:
Jonathan Reynolds (Labour)

Answer

Estimates of the number of UK jobs contributed by the onshore wind industry and its supply chain between 2010 and 2013 are contained in the table below

Employment in the onshore wind industry including its supply chain

2010

2011

2012

2013

Employment

14,300

17,800

18,400

19,000

Figures have been rounded to the nearest hundred and include the contribution of the direct sector and the indirect employment generated through the supply chain.

The data is sourced from the report “The size and performance of the UK low-carbon economy”, published by the Department in March 2015. It is available online:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/low-carbon-economy-size-and-performance


Answered by:
Anna Soubry (The Independent Group for Change)
15 June 2015

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