Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

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.

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