Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether he has made an estimate of the number of workers who will need to retrain in the next 10 years as a result of the transition to net zero; and what support his Department is providing to help those workers to retrain.

The transition to net zero will provide opportunities to grow the economy and support hundreds of thousands of green, high skilled jobs.

The North Sea Transition Deal is a global exemplar of how government can work with the energy sector to achieve a managed energy transition.

To understand and address workforce demands across the economy, the Green Jobs Delivery Group is focused on creating a Net Zero and Nature Workforce Action Plan, which will be informed by several sectoral assessments on workforce needs. As part of this, skills passporting arrangements for the power and networks sectors is being explored.