Current status: Answered by Kate Forbes on 27 February 2026
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to the second supplementary question to question S6O-05504 by Kate Forbes on 12 February 2026, when she stated that "at least 230 jobs being created and safeguarded" through the Just Transition Fund, what date the fund was first initiated and approximately how many jobs in oil and gas have been lost in the north east since that date.
The Just Transition Fund for the North East and Moray’s initial year of funding began in May 2022.
The Scottish Government does not hold statistics on job losses by year in any given sector of the economy. We do, however, monitor a range of sources of evidence around employment in the Scottish energy sector. For example, independent analysis has shown that over the period 2019 to 2022 the numbers of direct and indirect jobs supported by the Scottish offshore oil and gas sector decreased from 57,000 to 53,000.
We recognise that the energy transition will have particular impacts in the NE region. Alongside the JTF for NE and Moray, other examples of support provided by SG include the Oil and Gas Transition Training Fund for offshore oil and gas workers and the North East Scotland Investment Zone.