Member

The only detail we have heard about the number of jobs to be created by GBE came from the Secretary of State’s hand-picked chair of that body, who said that “hundreds” of people will be employed at the Aberdeen headquarters. We have since found out that the chair himself will be based in Manchester. More importantly, these few hundred people will hardly make up for the 200,000 jobs the Government are putting at risk with their plans to shut down the North Sea and the missed opportunity for jobs thanks to the go-slow on nuclear. On the Secretary of State’s watch, we have already seen thousands of jobs in the industry lost.