Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what recent steps she has taken with Cabinet colleagues to encourage the creation of green (a) jobs, (b) investment and (c) skills in (i) Preston, (ii) Lancashire, (iii) the North West and (iv) England.

The Government’s net zero target depends on having the right workforce with the right skills in the right locations across the country. Over 80,000 green jobs are currently being supported or are in the pipeline across the UK, as a result of new government policies and spending since November 2020.

To tackle emerging and future workforce demands, the Government, working with the Green Jobs Delivery Group, is focused on the creation of a Green Jobs Plan. This plan will provide the actions needed to ensure we have the sufficiently skilled workforce to deliver on the Government’s targets.