Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
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.
The Department currently employs the following numbers of staff working primarily in these areas:
Upstream oil and gas policy | 23.3 FTE |
Downstream oil resilience | 18.5 FTE |
Gas policy, including security of gas supply and the future of the gas market | 14.1 FTE |
Coal policy, including closure of unabated coal-fired generation by 2025, emissions limits for fossil-fuelled generation technologies, and the emissions performance standard | 4.5 FTE |
Liabilities from the former nationalised coal industry | 8.4 FTE |
The Offshore Petroleum Regulator for Environment and Decommissioning, based in Aberdeen | 92.6 FTE |
Renewable energy | 107 FTE |
Energy efficiency | 115 FTE |
Nuclear energy | 205.4 FTE |