PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Wind Power: Seas and Oceans (13 April 2017)
Question Asked
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what recent assessment he has made of the benefits to (a) Scotland and (b) the UK of investment in offshore wind capacity.
Asked by:
Ian Murray (Labour)
Asked by:
Ian Murray (Labour)
Answer
Investment in offshore wind capacity supports many jobs in both Scotland and the rest of the UK. A BIS report published in 2015, ‘The size and performance of the UK low-carbon economy’, estimated that 13,700 jobs in the UK were supported by offshore wind in 2013.
Recent announcements of supply chain investments and contract awards include CS Wind, 3 Sun Group and Bi-Fab in Scotland, and JDR Cables, Siemens, Granada Material Handling and Harland & Wolff in the rest of the UK.
Answered by:
Jesse Norman (Conservative)
20 April 2017
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