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“Paul talked about the future of work, and I saw from my time in the construction sector people moving between sectors, moving between disciplines, is a lot more common and a lot less rigid now. You train as a civil engineer, and you are a civil engineer for life. You might eventually become a politician, who knows. How…”

“If you are a supplier of offshore remote vehicles, do you pay a levy into the ECITB for training, or is the levy restricted to those who have construction and engineering skills?”

“Perhaps this is one for our discussion of where the report goes, but we have some parts of the sector paying a levy and others do not. In sectors such as the construction sector where we have to have a bigger amount of training there is the building safety levy, which everyone paid into to deal with the changes the ind…”

“Would that not be the role of the North Sea Transition Authority? Isn’t it a key part of its role to set that strategy?”

“When students are coming to you, are they thinking about having a more varied career than maybe 20 years ago when they thought, “I want to be a welder in the oil and gas sector and that is what I want to do for the rest of my life. I will train in that and I will do that”? Are you finding students coming through being …”

“My final question is for Richard. What challenges do the pace and trajectory of decarbonisation globally present for Aberdeen?”

“Richard, I will ask you the same question. If the Government said yes to all the requests from the industry, changing the fiscal regime, the regulatory regime, opening up opportunities, but we would still see productivity gains, meaning not as many jobs around, how does the union consider that? What is the union’s posi…”

“In our last session, we had quite a bit of evidence presented to us that workers felt their employers were not doing enough to support them in transitioning. Susan, you rightly said that we spoke to workers to hear their stories and that evidence is very clear. The vast majority felt that the employers in the industry …”

“Paul talked about the future of work, and I saw from my time in the construction sector people moving between sectors, moving between disciplines, is a lot more common and a lot less rigid now. You train as a civil engineer, and you are a civil engineer for life. You might eventually become a politician, who knows. How…”

“In our previous evidence session, we heard a compelling argument to maintain current levels to sustain the workforce long-term in the North Sea. Evidence from other countries where there are much more favourable regulatory and fiscal regimes—America, for example—indicates that there has still been a massive reduction i…”

“Russell, we have had evidence from the Chamber of Commerce, which I think we received this morning. I think I had underestimated the number of fly-in, fly-out workers that there were and how the sector in Aberdeen has an impact across the UK. You also talked about five sectors of the economy—tourism, food and drink, li…”

“My hon. Friend picks up the next point I want to make. Unfortunately, there have been cases, including at Warwick, where complaints of antisemitism have not been handled well and where those raising concerns have felt unsupported, and that creates a wider culture in which people hesitate to speak up. It may not even be…”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir John. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Leeds South West and Morley (Mark Sewards) for introducing this important debate. I am fortunate to have had a positive relationship with the small but perfectly formed Jewish community in Northamptonshire for many years.…”

“Tier 1s passing their liabilities through the supply chain is a potential blocker to UK businesses accessing this £25 billion a year of offshore energy-related spend.”

“Thank you. We talked a lot about local content. We saw the clean industry bonus in the latest CfD rounds. I do not know if any of you have any views on other mechanisms the Government could use to further improve UK content within the contracts they set.”

“Is it more the obligations the Government place on tier 1 of industry filtering through its supply chain that are the blocker, rather than procurement processes themselves?”

“Verity, Fuels Industry UK is advocating for much more domestically produced goods and domestic supply chains, which I think we would all support. Does the procurement framework in the UK support that ambition? Is it easy for UK businesses to compete and to win work?”

“Procurement in the supply chain is going to be business to business. Government will do some procurement but most of the procurement is in the supply chain. Why are businesses making it harder for their supply chain to win work?”

“Is that a subsidy to support manufacturing building up around the ports?”

“Do you think the UK taxpayer cares where their fuel comes from? They just want cheap fuel, don’t they?”