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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the policy paper entitled The Ten Point Plan for a Green Industrial Revolution, published on 18 November 2020, how many jobs have been created in offshore wind since the publication of the plan.

The Office for National Statistics publish statistics on employment in the offshore wind sector. Their data, published in February 2022, shows 10,100 people are estimated to have been directly employed, and 14,200 indirectly employed, in the offshore wind sector in 2020, the latest year for which data is available:

https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/environmentalaccounts/bulletins/finalestimates/2020.