GB Energy staffing figures expose gulf with Labour's '1000 Scottish jobs' pledge

Michael Shanks is a Scottish Labour MP and the UK minister with responsibility for GB Energy (Image: PA)

LABOUR’s flagship GB Energy – which was touted as creating 1000 jobs in Aberdeen – has just 53 full-time staff and more than one-third of its workforce lives outside Scotland.

In total, the investment vehicle (which was initially to be a public energy company) employs 132 people, The Times reported. There are 53 full-time employees, 31 short-term staff, and 48 on secondment from elsewhere.