5th Special Report - Workforce planning to deliver clean, secure energy: Government Response

This is the government's response, published 27 February 2026.

Summary written by Accountability Index from the government's response. It is not the government's own words.

The government says it agrees with most of the Committee's recommendations on clean energy and retrofit workforce planning, and says it partially agrees with others, including on skilled immigration conditionality and impact assessments for procurement conditionality.

• On existing workers, it "agrees" and cites a new North Sea Jobs Service, and says it is "continuing to support" expansion of the Energy Skills Passport, including "exploring" additional sectors such as electricity networks and nuclear.
• On skilled immigration, it "partially agrees" and states: "We do not currently plan other labour conditionality measures beyond those we set out in the IWP", while keeping policies "under review".
• On impact assessments for procurement conditionality, it "partially agrees" but says conditionality "would not be within scope of requiring the publication of an impact assessment", and that it will be considered "on a case-by-case basis".
• On the Regional Skills Pilots, it "partially agrees", says it has "commissioned an independent evaluation", and does not commit to the Committee's summer 2026 reporting date.

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