Construction: Skilled Workers

(asked on 24th April 2019) - View Source

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what recent estimate his Department has made of the number of skilled workers in the construction industry.


Answered by
Andrew Stephenson Portrait
Andrew Stephenson
This question was answered on 29th April 2019

The following table provides information about skills levels in the construction workforce in 2018.

Skill level

Number

Percentage

High

532,100

23%

Upper Middle

1,216,600

53%

Lower Middle

373,800

16%

Low

176,500

8%

Total

2,299,000

100%

Data source: Annual Population Survey Jan-Dec 2018, extracted from NOMIS

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