Motion
Backing Oil and Gas
S6M-19894.3 · Amendment · lodged by Martin, Gillian
Lodged on
25 Nov 2025Heard / answered on
26 Nov 2025Watch the chamber session on SPTV · lands on the meetings recorded on 26 Nov 2025
As 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 recognises that communities in Scotland are now paying the price of the UK Conservative administration’s levy on Scottish industry.”
Backed by
Supported by 1 additional MSP
SNP 1
Lodged by
Martin, Gillian
(Scottish National Party).
- Dey, Graeme (SNP)
Amendment division result
26 Nov 2025
Defeated
Show MSPs
For
58Against
60Abstain
1Not voted
10In the Official Report
Debated in chamber — 3 contributions reference this
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Gillian Martin
SNP
Chamber
· 26 Nov 2025 · Meeting of the Parliament 26 November 2025
It is simply a tax on the industrial workers and communities of Scotland. I am appalled that it has not been scrapped. There is one more thing to say before I sit down. The Tories have a brass neck.…
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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 result of the division on amendment S6M-19894.3, in the name of Gillian Martin, is: For 58, Against 60, Abstentions 1. Amendment disagreed to.
Amendments and how the chamber decided
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S6M-19894Original motion24 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-19894.3Selected 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...