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6th Report - Workforce planning to deliver clean, secure energy
Energy Security and Net Zero Committee
HC 393
Published 5 December 2025
Recommendations
6
Not Addressed
Set out options by 2026 for leveraging skilled immigration to boost home-grown talent.
Recommendation
The Government should, by the end of 2026, set out a range of further options for conditionality to leverage the short-term need for skilled immigration to boost the longer-term need for home-grown talent. An analysis of their potential impacts should …
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Government Response Summary
The government agrees with the recommendation but then discusses the role of devolved and local governments in skills planning and various collaborative initiatives for local skills provision, entirely failing to address the request for options on conditionality for skilled immigration by the end of 2026.
Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
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Not Addressed
Clarify Government's stance on electricity and gas levies, EPC revisions, and hydrogen's heating role.
Recommendation
The Government should, as a matter of urgency, clarify its stance on the balance of levies between electricity and gas, revisions to the EPC regime and the role of hydrogen in heating. (Recommendation, Paragraph 95)
Government Response Summary
The government agrees, but its response focuses on the Warm Homes Plan's investment in home upgrades and ongoing evaluation of skills funding, not on clarifying stances on electricity/gas levies, EPC revisions, or hydrogen in heating.
Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
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