Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Peter Kyle and Douglas Lumsden

Thursday 2nd July 2026 Commons Chamber

[Douglas Lumsden (Aberdeen South) (Con)]

In Aberdeen South, there is a jobs emergency, with 1,000 jobs a month being lost from the oil and gas sector. So will the Government ditch their damaging policies that are destroying the oil and gas industry and destroying jobs in Aberdeen South?

[Peter Kyle]

This Government are investing record amounts in the transition to renewable energy. We need to break the dependence on fossil fuels that our country has been forced into by the Conservative party. We will do so by creating wealth, jobs and businesses in the meantime.