Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate he has made of the number of people employed in the energy efficiency industry in each year since 2005.

A report published by the Department for Business Innovation and Skills contains estimates of the number of jobs supported across the wider low carbon and environmental goods and services sector. The report, published in July 2013, is available here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/low-carbon-and-environmental-goods-and-services-2011-to-2012.

The report does not explicitly refer to the energy efficiency sector, but it does present estimates of employment in the low carbon building technologies and energy management sectors from 2007/08 to 2011/12 (figures for earlier years are not available). The estimates of employment in the two sectors contained within the report include both those employed directly and those employed indirectly in the wider supply chain.