A windfall tax on North Sea oil and gas producers has been announced by the Chancellor Rishi Sunak.
The temporary 25% tax on profits is set to raise around £5bn over the next year and is due to be phased out when prices return to more normal levels.
Speaking earlier today, Mr Sunak stated: “The oil and gas sector is making extraordinary profits, not as the result of recent changes to risk-taking or innovation or efficiency, but as the result of surging global commodity prices driven in part by Russia’s war.