Motion
Backing Oil and Gas
S6M-19894.4 · Amendment · lodged by Boyack, Sarah
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 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 administration's plans to ensure that oil and gas continue to be key parts of the country's energy mix for decades to come, while working to unlock Scotland’s huge renewable potential; condemns the two decades of SNP failure to turn this enormous potential into jobs, wealth and social good for communities across Scotland, and calls on the Scottish Government to urgently publish its Energy Strategy and Just Transition Plan, and to invest now in skills development and the green jobs of the future."
Lodged by
Boyack, Sarah
alone — no additional MSPs have signed on.
Amendment division result
26 Nov 2025
Defeated
Show MSPs
For
22Against
97Abstain
1Not voted
9In the Official Report
Debated in chamber — 5 contributions reference this
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The Deputy Presiding Officer
LD
Chamber
· 26 Nov 2025 · Meeting of the Parliament 26 November 2025
Can we please make sure that we can hear the person who has the floor? A bit of response and reaction to what is being said is one thing, but barracking in that way is not acceptable. I call Sarah B…
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Sarah Boyack
Lab
Chamber
· 26 Nov 2025 · Meeting of the Parliament 26 November 2025
No, thank you. I just want to be clear on this topic—it is a short debate. Scotland’s huge renewables potential must be unlocked by maximising the opportunities from offshore wind, accelerating onsh…
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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 result of the division on amendment S6M-19894.4, in the name of Sarah Boyack, is: For 22, Against 97, 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-19894.4Selected 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...