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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of increasing funding for the further and adult education sectors on (a) the skills gap, (b) the low carbon transition and (c) targets for retrofitting, including fitting heat pumps.

The Government is investing £3.8bn in further education and skills over the course of this Parliament, to ensure people can access high-quality training and education that leads to good jobs, addresses skills gaps, boosts productivity and supports levelling up. This includes funding for programmes to support green skills crucial to the net zero transition.

In September, BEIS launched a £9.2m skills competition to fund training for people working in the energy efficiency, retrofit and low carbon heating sectors in England.