Renewable Energy: Employment
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment he has made of his Department's policies on jobs in the renewable energy sector.
Answered by Michael Shanks
The clean energy transition represents one of the UK’s largest opportunities for economic growth and high-quality job creation this decade.
In October 2025, we published the Clean Energy Jobs Plan which sets out the workforce needed to deliver our Clean Energy Superpower Mission, and how the government will work in partnership with industry and trade unions to deliver it. This highlights that the UK’s clean energy workforce could double by 2030, supporting up to 860,000 high quality jobs across every nation and region.
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