Recommendation 12

The Government should recognise the urgency of the need for a coherent plan for the North Sea by committing to dates for the publication of its consultation response and consequent transition plan. The transition plan should be long-term in scope, provide certainty to the sector, and speak directly to the challenges faced by the communities in the northeast of Scotland, who are disproportionately affected by the UK’s transition away from oil and gas. We recommend that the Government’s transition plan contains specific and measurable outcomes on increasing the transfer of skills from the oil and gas industry to new sectors, with clear commitments from both governments and industry on how to achieve them. This could include target figures for oil and gas workers transitioning into specific industries, for clean energy job creation, and data on the UK supply chain content in both oil and gas and renewable energy activity. (Recommendation, Paragraph 90)