Question follow-through · 73705

Renewable Energy: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has a budget for retraining programmes for adult workers transitioning from oil and gas to renewable energy.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body
Department for Education
Tabled
1 Sept 2025
Target answer date
3 Sept 2025
Answer
16 Sept 2025 · 15 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 1 Sept 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has a budget for retraining programmes for adult workers transitioning from oil and gas to renewable energy.

  2. 3 Sept 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 16 Sept 2025

    Answer published

    Green skills are essential to driving economic growth and achieving the UK’s net zero target by 2050. Clean energy and advanced manufacturing have been identified as priority sectors in the Industrial Strategy.To support this, the government will invest a...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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