NUCLEAR POWER: EMPLOYMENT

16th October 2015

Sir Nicholas Soames: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many people were employed in the nuclear industry and its supply chain in each financial year between 2010-11 and 2014-15.

Andrea Leadsom, Minister of State, Department of Energy and Climate Change: Cogent Skills, the industry strategic body for skills in the science industries, estimates that full time equivalent employment in the nuclear industry and its supply chain in the years requested was as follows:

  • 2010-11 – 73200 employees;
  • 2011-12 – 72400 employees;
  • 2012-13 – 71600 employees;
  • 2013 -14 – 70800 employees;
  • 2014-15 – 70000 employees.

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