5.24 This corresponds with a more detailed assessment of the industry undertaken by the East of England Energy Group in 2002 which shows there were some 15,300 jobs in the region supported by direct, indirect and induced oil and gas industry employment in 2002. Direct jobs accounted for 2,000 of these, and this represented a 40% increase on 1999 levels. The
breakdown of these jobs by industry reflects that at the UK level, although slightly more jobs are retained in engineering and computing services and fewer in other business services in the East of England.