To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what recent steps his Department has taken to provide funding for jobs that will help to mitigate the effects of climate change.
Answered on
7 November 2022
There are already around 430,000 jobs in low carbon businesses and their supply chains across the country, with turnover estimated at £41.2 billion in 2020. The Government estimates that in April 2022, nearly 68,000 green jobs across the UK economy had been supported, were currently supported, or had been secured for the future by Government policies since the Ten Point Plan was launched in November 2020. The Green Jobs Delivery Group is the central forum through which Ministers, industry, businesses and other key stakeholders are working together to drive forward action on our green jobs and skills commitments.