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Environment Protection: Employment

Question for Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

UIN HL3541, tabled on 17 December 2024

To ask His Majesty's Government whether they will take account of the role played by environmental horticulture in their definition of green jobs.

Answered on

3 January 2025

The ONS defines green jobs as: "employment in an activity that contributes to protecting or restoring the environment, including those that mitigate or adapt to climate change" (2024, ONS - Experimental estimates of green jobs, UK - Office for National Statistics [see attached]). Given the wide-reaching nature of this definition, any occupations or tasks within environmental horticulture that fall under the definition, including for example tasks related to nature conservation, will therefore be included.