Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether his Department plans to allocate funds toward supporting the re-training of oil and gas workers.

DESNZ has established the Office for Clean Energy Jobs (OCEJ) to ensure that clean energy jobs are abundant, high quality, paid fairly, and have favourable terms and good working conditions.

Through OCEJ we have launched several pilot initiatives, including a series of Regional Skills Pilots. These pilots will help government and local and devolved partners develop a better understanding of what local interventions are the most successful in building the skilled workforce needed to meet the UK’s Clean Energy Superpower Mission. Aberdeen, Lincolnshire, Cheshire and Pembrokeshire have all been identified as key regions for clean energy and we are working, with local and devolved partners to empower them to develop their own plans for how best to target the funding.