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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what recent discussions he has had with (a) trades unions and (b) the oil and gas authority on employment standards in the offshore decommissioning industry.

The majority of companies and people undertaking work on offshore decommissioning are those who also work in the new build and ongoing production phases of the oil and gas industry and as such there are well established employment standards and conditions.