Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will make an assessment of the accuracy of the Offshore Wind Industry Council’s projection that the sector will create 27,000 skilled jobs by 2030; and if he will make a statement.
In the Clean Growth Strategy, the Government reaffirmed our future support for offshore wind stating that we would improve the route to market for renewable technologies such as offshore wind through:
No specific assessment has been made on the accuracy of the Offshore Wind Industry Council’s projection.