Source · Select Committees · Energy Security and Net Zero Committee
Recommendation 21
21
Accepted in Part
Robustly and regularly evaluate publicly funded skills schemes addressing workforce shortages.
Recommendation
Targeting consumer demand on its own is necessary but not sufficient and public funding is needed aimed at addressing the supply of skills directly. The commitments in the Spending Review and Industrial Strategy are welcome as is the direction of travel. At some point market signals will be strong enough and funding can be scaled back but we are not at that stage yet. While public funding could be deployed across a variety of worthy initiatives, the schemes the Government chooses to fund must be robustly and regularly evaluated to ensure they adequately address the skills shortages identified in its workforce strategies. (Conclusion, Paragraph 93)
Government response summary AI-generated
The government partially agrees, intending to ensure fair work and skills requirements are considered in commercial contracts and grants where feasible, and that conditionality will be carefully considered case-by-case, recognizing existing requirements for departments to have due regard to equality.
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Government Response
Accepted in Part
HM Government · verbatim extract
Accepted in Part
The government agrees with this recommendation. The Warm Homes Plan will invest £15 billion to upgrade up to five million homes by 2030. This represents the biggest ever public investment to upgrade British homes and demonstrates our commitment to ramp up the delivery of retrofit during this Parliament. Through its delivery partners, the government routinely carries out evaluation activities to measure the impact of departmental skills funding on the supply of skills provision in England. We will continue to undertake these evaluation activities throughout the duration of the skills funding announced in the Warm Homes Plan.
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