To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many staff in his Department are working primarily on (a) fossil fuels, (b) renewables, (c) energy efficiency and (d) nuclear energy.
Answered on
15 October 2020
The Department currently employs the following numbers of staff working primarily in these areas:
Upstream oil and gas policy | 26 FTE |
Downstream oil resilience | 15 FTE |
Gas policy | 23 FTE |
Coal policy (including staff working on the domestic & international transition away from coal) | 6 FTE |
Liabilities from the former nationalised coal industry | 7.4 FTE |
The Offshore Petroleum Regulator for Environment and Decommissioning, based in Aberdeen | 90.5 FTE |
Renewable energy | 104.6 FTE |
Renewable heat | 79 FTE |
Energy efficiency | 237 FTE |
Nuclear energy | 201.1 FTE |