Question reference: S6W-25272
- Asked by: Douglas Lumsden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: 6 February 2024
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Current status: Answered by Mairi McAllan on 19 February 2024
Question
To ask the Scottish Government what the value of oil and gas exports, as a percentage of Scotland’s total exports, has been in each financial year from 2014-15 to date.
Answer
There are no statistics available on Scotland’s total exports including oil and gas on a quarterly or a financial year basis. On a calendar year basis, the latest available official statistics in development (previously known as experimental statistics) include estimates up to 2021.
Exports of oil and gas as a percentage of total exports | |
2014 | 21.5% |
2015 | 16.7% |
2016 | 15.1% |
2017 | 17.5% |
2018 | 22.2% |
2019 | 20.1% |
2020(provisional) | 15.1% |
2021(provisional) | 22.0% |
Source: Supply and Use Satellite Accounts for Extra-Regio Activities: 1998-2021 - gov.scot (www.gov.scot) (28 June 2023), calculations based on data from Table 1