Motion
Backing Oil and Gas
S6M-19894 · Motion For Debate · lodged by Lumsden, Douglas
Lodged on
24 Nov 2025Heard / answered on
26 Nov 2025Watch the chamber session on SPTV · lands on the meetings recorded on 26 Nov 2025
That the Parliament regrets the Scottish Government's ideological drive to end North Sea oil and gas exploration and production; notes the negative impact on oil and gas jobs, energy security, the economy and the environment of the Scottish Government's failure to pursue an informed, data-led, evidence-based North Sea policy; demands the immediate and unequivocal reversal of the Scottish Government's presumption against new oil and gas exploration and production, and calls on the UK Government to immediately abolish the Energy Profits Levy.
Lodged by
Lumsden, Douglas
alone — no additional MSPs have signed on.
Final vote on motion (no amendments carried)
26 Nov 2025
Defeated
Show MSPs
For
28Against
89Abstain
3Not voted
9Amendments were lodged but none were carried; the motion was decided as originally lodged.
Computer-generated best guess
Possible final motion text as originally lodged
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That the Parliament regrets the Scottish Government's ideological drive to end North Sea oil and gas exploration and production; notes the negative impact on oil and gas jobs, energy security, the economy and the environment of the Scottish Government's failure to pursue an informed, data-led, evidence-based North Sea policy; demands the immediate and unequivocal reversal of the Scottish Government's presumption against new oil and gas exploration and production, and calls on the UK Government to immediately abolish the Energy Profits Levy.
In the Official Report
Debated in chamber — 5 contributions reference this
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The Deputy Presiding Officer (Liam McArthur)
LD
Chamber
· 26 Nov 2025 · Meeting of the Parliament 26 November 2025
The next item of business is a debate on motion S6M-19894, in the name of Douglas Lumsden, on backing oil and gas. I invite members wishing to participate in the debate to press their request-to-spea…
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The Presiding Officer (Alison Johnstone)
NPA
Chamber
· 26 Nov 2025 · Meeting of the Parliament 26 November 2025
There are eleven questions to be put as a result of today’s business. I remind members that, if amendment S6M-19894.3, in the name of Gillian Martin, is agreed to, amendment S6M-19894.4, in the name …
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The Presiding Officer
NPA
Chamber
· 26 Nov 2025 · Meeting of the Parliament 26 November 2025
The next question is, that amendment S6M-19894.4, in the name of Sarah Boyack, which seeks to amend motion S6M-19894, in the name of Douglas Lumsden, on backing oil and gas, be agreed to. Are we agre…
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The Presiding Officer
NPA
Chamber
· 26 Nov 2025 · Meeting of the Parliament 26 November 2025
The next question is, that motion S6M-19894, in the name of Douglas Lumsden, on backing oil and gas, be agreed to. Are we agreed? Members: No.
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The Presiding Officer
NPA
Chamber
· 26 Nov 2025 · Meeting of the Parliament 26 November 2025
The result of the division on motion S6M-19894, in the name of Douglas Lumsden, is: For 28, Against 89, Abstentions 3. Motion disagreed to.
Amendments and how the chamber decided
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S6M-19894Selected itemDefeated 28/8924 Nov 2025 · Motion For Debate · Lumsden, DouglasThat the Parliament regrets the Scottish Government's ideological drive to end North Sea oil and gas exploration and production; notes the negative impact on oil and gas jobs, energy security, the economy and the environment of the Scottish Government's failure to pursue an informed, data-led, evidence-based North Sea policy; demands the immediate an...
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S6M-19894.1Linked amendment/item25 Nov 2025 · Amendment · Rennie, WillieAs an amendment to motion S6M-19894 in the name of Douglas Lumsden (Backing Oil and Gas), leave out from "regrets" to end and insert "reaffirms its support for motion S6M-13482, as amended by the Scottish Liberal Democrats, which was agreed by the Parliament on 5 June 2024, and which outlines its position on the oil and gas industry in Scotland, and belie...
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S6M-19894.2Linked amendment/item25 Nov 2025 · Amendment · Harvie, PatrickAs an amendment to motion S6M-19894 in the name of Douglas Lumsden (Backing Oil and Gas), leave out from first "Government's" to end and insert "Conservative and Unionist Party's ideological opposition to credible climate policy; notes the huge opportunity for long-term jobs, energy security, the economy and the environment if both the Scottish and UK gov...
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S6M-19894.3Linked amendment/itemDefeated 58/6025 Nov 2025 · Amendment · Martin, GillianAs an amendment to motion S6M-19894 in the name of Douglas Lumsden (Backing Oil and Gas), leave out from first “the Scottish” to end and insert “that the Conservative Party, while in the UK Government, extended the Energy Profits Levy and failed to replace it with a sustainable fiscal regime that supports a just transition, and recognise...
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S6M-19894.4Linked amendment/itemDefeated 22/9725 Nov 2025 · Amendment · Boyack, SarahAs an amendment to motion S6M-19894 in the name of Douglas Lumsden (Backing Oil and Gas), leave out from first "the Scottish" to end and insert "that the Scottish National Party (SNP) and the Conservative and Unionist Party stood by for years and let Scotland’s oil and gas industry decline with no plan for the future; welcomes the UK Labour administ...