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 need to reskill workers in the (a) construction, (b) transport and (c) manufacturing sectors as part of the transition to a net zero economy; and if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of providing UK businesses with Government funding to deliver such retraining programmes at the earliest opportunity.

The Government convened the independent Green Jobs Taskforce and its analysis was published here in July 2021: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/green-jobs-taskforce-report

• The ideas generated by the Taskforce contributed to the Government Net Zero Strategy, published 19 October, which sets out the measures being taken to support skills and retraining for the green economy.