Environment Protection: Employment

(asked on 4th June 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 roles the Government defines as green collar jobs; and what the criteria are for defining a job as green collar.


Answered by
Chris Skidmore Portrait
Chris Skidmore
This question was answered on 12th June 2019

The official sources of data for capturing jobs that support clean growth are the ONS’s Low Carbon and Renewable Energy Survey and the ONS’s Environmental Goods and Services Sector dataset.

This is publicly available information at:
https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/environmentalaccounts/bulletins/finalestimates/2017; and
https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/environmentalaccounts/datasets/ukenvironmentalgoodsandservicessectoregssestimates.

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