PM’s claim about jobs in the oil and gas industry fact checked

23 November 2023

At Prime Minister’s Questions yesterday, the Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said there are “200,000 people employed in Scotland’s North Sea oil and gas industry”. 

We took a look at this claim, and found the 200,000 figure appears to refer to the total number of jobs supported by oil and gas across the whole of the UK.

According to industry body Offshore Energies UK, the sector supports around 93,600 jobs in Scotland. 

Read our fact check here.

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