Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether he plans to support the re-training of oil and gas workers to help them transition to renewable energy.

By 2030, the clean energy transition could create hundreds of thousands of good new jobs across the UK, with evidence demonstrates that there is a high degree of transferability of skills between oil and gas and renewables roles.

The Government recently launched a consultation setting out the next steps in its overarching objective for the North Sea, to make it a world leading example of an offshore clean energy industry. The consultation seeks views on how we can best support North Sea oil and gas workers into clean energy industries and other high-growth sectors. The consultation closed on 30 April and we are now considering responses.

DESNZ has also established the Office for Clean Energy Jobs (OCEJ) to coordinate work that clean energy jobs are abundant, high quality, paid fairly, and have favourable terms and good working conditions. DESNZ is supporting a number of initiatives to support workers to retrain, transfer and be retained in clean energy sectors such as the Energy Skills Passport and series of Regional Skills Pilots the department launched earlier this year.