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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department is taking steps to increase the number of green jobs in Ellesmere Port and Neston constituency.

The Net Zero Strategy sets out its plans to work with industry to create the skilled workforce needed to transition to a green economy and the Government have established the Green Jobs Delivery Group to drive this forward. The Group will support the delivery of up to 480,000 skilled green jobs by 2030.

Ellesmere Port is located within Hynet, one of two industrial clusters identified on the first track for the Government's Carbon Capture, Usage and Storage (CCUS) cluster sequencing programme. The Government estimates the carbon capture industry could support up to 50,000 jobs in the UK in 2030.