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Future UK Oil And Gas Production

EDM number 2069 in 2007-08, proposed by Robert Smith on 16/07/2008.
Categorised under the topics of Industry and Oil, petrol and natural gas.

That this House welcomes Oil and Gas UK's 2008 economic report; recognises the value of the oil and gas industry to the UK economy, given that it employs 450,000 people and benefits the UK balance of payments to the tune of £45 billion a year; further notes the untapped potential of the industry to contribute to the nation's future security of energy supply, with 25 billion barrels or more of oil and gas equivalent recoverable from the UK continental shelf, including the West of Shetland reserves; recognises that substantial investment and exploration activity will be required over and above current plans to extract these reserves; and therefore calls on the Government to build on its constructive engagement with the industry to ensure the necessary investment is made to unlock this country's full potential to produce its own oil and gas.

This motion has been signed by a total of 23 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Robert Smith16/07/2008West Aberdeenshire and KincardineLiberal DemocratProposed
Frank Doran16/07/2008Aberdeen NorthLabourSeconded
Stewart Hosie16/07/2008Dundee EastScottish National PartySeconded
Malcolm Bruce16/07/2008GordonLiberal DemocratSeconded
Anne Begg16/07/2008Aberdeen SouthLabourSeconded
Peter Bottomley16/07/2008Worthing WestConservativeSeconded
Alan Meale16/07/2008MansfieldLabourSigned
Robert Wareing17/07/2008Liverpool, West DerbyIndependentSigned
David Taylor17/07/2008North West LeicestershireLabourSigned
Mike Hancock17/07/2008Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSigned
Brian Jenkins17/07/2008TamworthLabourSigned
Lindsay Hoyle17/07/2008ChorleyLabourSigned
Nick Harvey21/07/2008North DevonLiberal DemocratSigned
Ann Cryer21/07/2008KeighleyLabourSigned
Bill Etherington21/07/2008Sunderland NorthLabourSigned
Rudi Vis21/07/2008Finchley and Golders GreenLabourSigned
Mark Hunter21/07/2008CheadleLiberal DemocratSigned
Michael Connarty22/07/2008Linlithgow and East FalkirkLabourSigned
Janet Dean22/07/2008BurtonLabourSigned
John Leech22/07/2008Manchester, WithingtonLiberal DemocratSigned
Willie Rennie06/10/2008Dunfermline and West FifeLiberal DemocratSigned
Alistair Carmichael09/10/2008Orkney and ShetlandLiberal DemocratSigned
Michael Jabez Foster22/10/2008Hastings and RyeLabourSigned

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