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Scotland’s Energy Opportunity : Amendment 4

  • Submitted by: Liam Kerr, North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 September 2026
  • Motion type: Amendment
  • Motion reference: S7M-01114.4
  • Current status: Taken in the Chamber on Thursday, 10 September 2026

As an amendment to motion S7M-01114 in the name of Stephen Gethins (Scotland’s Energy Opportunity), insert at end "expresses deep concern that 1,000 jobs each month are being lost in Scotland’s oil and gas industry; calls on the UK Labour administration to scrap the damaging energy profits levy and to approve the Rosebank and Jackdaw oil and gas fields; urges the Scottish Government to publish a new energy strategy, which abandons its presumption against oil and gas; calls on the Scottish Government to stop blocking new nuclear sites and to explore the roll-out of small modular reactors, and warns that failing to invest in a diverse energy mix will have an adverse effect on Scotland's energy security.


Vote

Result 25 for, 83 against, 8 abstained, 13 did not vote Disagreed

Scottish National Party

Scottish Labour

Reform UK

Scottish Green Party

Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party

Scottish Liberal Democrats

No Party Affiliation

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0

Against

0

Abstained

0

Did not vote


Related motion

Scotland’s Energy Opportunity

Submitted by: Stephen Gethins, Dundee City East, Scottish National Party

Date lodged: Tuesday, September 8, 2026

Motion reference: S7M-01114

Current status: Taken in the Chamber on Thursday, September 10, 2026

Supported by: Jamie Hepburn, John Swinney

Result 90 for, 25 against, 0 abstained, 14 did not vote Agreed


Amendments

Scotland’s Energy Opportunity : Amendment 1

Submitted by: Kristopher Leask, Highlands and Islands, Scottish Green Party

Date lodged: Wednesday, September 9, 2026

Motion reference: S7M-01114.1

Current status: Taken in the Chamber on Thursday, September 10, 2026

Result 83 for, 24 against, 8 abstained, 14 did not vote Agreed


Scotland’s Energy Opportunity : Amendment 2

Submitted by: Sanne Dijkstra-Downie, Edinburgh Northern, Scottish Liberal Democrats

Date lodged: Wednesday, September 9, 2026

Motion reference: S7M-01114.2

Current status: Taken in the Chamber on Thursday, September 10, 2026

Result 91 for, 25 against, 0 abstained, 13 did not vote Agreed


Scotland’s Energy Opportunity : Amendment 3

Submitted by: Daniel Johnson, Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour

Date lodged: Wednesday, September 9, 2026

Motion reference: S7M-01114.3

Current status: Taken in the Chamber on Thursday, September 10, 2026

Supported by: Paul Sweeney

Result 76 for, 40 against, 0 abstained, 13 did not vote Agreed


Scotland’s Energy Opportunity : Amendment 5

Submitted by: Malcolm Offord, West Scotland, Reform UK

Date lodged: Wednesday, September 9, 2026

Motion reference: S7M-01114.5

Current status: Taken in the Chamber on Thursday, September 10, 2026

Result 24 for, 91 against, 0 abstained, 14 did not vote Disagreed