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Speeches by McAllister.

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17 Dec 2025Scottish Affairs Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1564)

No support at all from either Government?

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17 Dec 2025Scottish Affairs Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1564)

What type of interventions would you like to see both Governments offering? What type of support do you think they should be offering right now?

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17 Dec 2025Scottish Affairs Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1564)

You are in the industry and I am not, but I guess that would have taken months and months of discussions, meetings and negotiations involving the Minister, Johnny Reynolds, Jim Ratcliffe and others—I am guessing—to allow them to reach the stage where they made that announcement today.

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17 Dec 2025Scottish Affairs Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1564)

The line you seem to be adopting this morning very much is that this is all the UK Government’s fault in relation to their policy, rather than any bad decisions on the part of ExxonMobil. I have noticed that you said that you invested up to £270 million of capital on the site, but you are still operating at a loss of £

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17 Dec 2025Scottish Affairs Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1564)

Last year’s then, sorry.

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17 Dec 2025Scottish Affairs Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1564)

We might be asking you that, because you have been in discussions with the UK Government since April, have you not?

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17 Dec 2025Scottish Affairs Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1564)

Sorry, what was the figure last year?

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17 Dec 2025Scottish Affairs Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1564)

Was the view formed, therefore, that the discussions had to be with the UK Government because it was about presenting the scale of the challenge, and you saw that the discussion should be about Government policy? What about a just transition plan, then, either presenting that to the UK Government over the six months or

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17 Dec 2025Scottish Affairs Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1564)

Were you part of the co-development of the just transition plan for Mossmorran that the Scottish Government announced in April 2024?

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17 Dec 2025Scottish Affairs Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1564)

You do not have the figure?

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17 Dec 2025Scottish Affairs Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1564)

I want to know what is happening with it, because they have been working with you since April 2024.

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17 Dec 2025Scottish Affairs Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1564)

You are the UK chair, and you cannot give me the figure?

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17 Dec 2025Scottish Affairs Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1564)

You do not have the figure for last year?

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17 Dec 2025Scottish Affairs Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1564)

What is your position at ExxonMobil?

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17 Dec 2025Scottish Affairs Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1564)

You were part of those discussions?

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17 Dec 2025Scottish Affairs Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1564)

No, no, okay. I just wondered what the profit margins were over the last few years across ExxonMobil that would allow you to maintain operations at the Mossmorran site, given the fact that you spoke very well about how good the workers are there and the jobs that you want to save. Surely, some profits could be used for

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17 Dec 2025Scottish Affairs Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1564)

Yes. You are the UK chair of that business, and you cannot tell us anything about your figures, but you can talk about the UK Government policy and figures.

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17 Dec 2025 INEOS Chemicals: Grangemouth

This is such welcome news for Grangemouth and Scotland just prior to Christmas. My thanks go to the Minister and all Departments that worked jointly to secure the deal. It is a pity that the SNP could not bring itself to mention the Grangemouth investment earlier today at PMQs—perhaps after decades of failure, the SNP

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17 Dec 2025Scottish Affairs Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1564)

The Cabinet Secretary, who was then Màiri McAllan, announced in April 2024 that they were working on that, and it would be co-produced, presumably with you. Well, that was a year and a half ago.

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17 Dec 2025Scottish Affairs Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1564)

I find that extraordinary.

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