Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps his Department is taking to increase the number of green jobs in Newcastle Central constituency.

The Government is providing significant investment for the offshore renewable and electric vehicle industries across North East England.

The Getting Building Fund is supporting construction of Equinor's new Operations and Maintenance base at the Port of Tyne, which will serve the world’s biggest offshore wind farm at Dogger Bank. This is expected to generate over 200 direct jobs in the region.

Construction has started this week on EV 36 Zero – a new £1 billion Electric Vehicle Hub near to Nissan’s Sunderland plant, with significant support coming from the Government, which will create around 1,000 jobs.