Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Staff

(asked on 8th October 2020) - View Source
Questioner
Caroline Lucas Portrait
Caroline Lucas
(Green Party - Brighton, Pavilion)

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.

Answered by
Kwasi Kwarteng Portrait
Kwasi Kwarteng
This question was answered on 15th October 2020

The Department currently employs the following numbers of staff working primarily in these areas:

Upstream oil and gas policy

26 FTE

Downstream oil resilience

15 FTE

Gas policy

23 FTE

Coal policy (including staff working on the domestic & international transition away from coal)

6 FTE

Liabilities from the former nationalised coal industry

7.4 FTE

The Offshore Petroleum Regulator for Environment and Decommissioning, based in Aberdeen

90.5 FTE

Renewable energy

104.6 FTE

Renewable heat

79 FTE

Energy efficiency

237 FTE

Nuclear energy

201.1 FTE

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