“What steps he is taking to ensure the preparedness of his Department in the event that the UK leaves the EU without a deal.”
Asked by
Kirsty Blackman
Answering Minister
the Secretary of State for Transport
Answer from Hansard
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero (Chris McDonald)
After a lot of hullabaloo about the oil and gas industry, we now get to turn to the areas where we are doubling down—namely, on our vast natural resource in clean energy industries and offshore wind, where we managed to attract £90 billion-worth of private sector investment in 2024, in collaboration with the sector councils. Whereas the Conservative Government were happy for those associated jobs to be in Denmark and the Netherlands, we are reindustrialising Blyth, the Tyne and the Tees.