Source · Select Committees · Environmental Audit Committee
Recommendation 4
4
Not Addressed
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We recommend that the Government, in its response to this report, set out its arrangements...
Recommendation
We recommend that the Government, in its response to this report, set out its arrangements for cross-departmental delivery of green jobs and skills ambitions, identifying: a) each department’s responsibilities; b) how it will monitor and co-ordinate delivery across departments; and c) how it will collaborate with the devolved administrations and local authorities. We recommend that these arrangements include tasking the cabinet committees on climate action with overseeing the delivery of green jobs and skills actions across Government, ensuring that this includes oversight of departments’ actions on green jobs and skills less directly related to climate action, such as those in nature or the circular economy.
Government response summary AI-generated
The government's response refers to the Skills and Productivity Board's role in providing insights and monitoring green skills work. However, it does not set out detailed arrangements for cross-departmental delivery, specific departmental responsibilities, or mechanisms for monitoring, coordination, and collaboration with devolved administrations and local authorities as recommended.
Summary of the government's response below — read the verbatim text to verify.
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Government Response
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HM Government · verbatim extract
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The Net Zero Strategy set out a commitment to form a new cross-cutting delivery group, to support the development and delivery of the Government’s plans for green jobs and skills. We are pleased to set out further details on this group to the Committee. The Green Jobs Delivery Group will be the central forum through which government, industry and other key stakeholders work together to ensure that the UK has the workforce needed to deliver a green industrial revolution. The Group will include Ministerial representation from the Department of Business Energy and Industrial Strategy, the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, the Department for Education, the Department for Work and Pensions, and other departments as required. It will also be co-chaired by an industry representative to ensure an inclusive view of the action on green jobs needed for net zero and wider environmental goals. The Government will explore the role that the devolved administrations and local government can play to support this work, to ensure effective join up across the UK. The Group will be active for the duration of this Parliament and will aim to drive forward industry and government action across a range of topics, which might include: 1) Ensuring we have the skilled workforce to deliver net zero and wider environmental goals in line with the UK’s levelling up agenda. 2) Ensuring workers and communities in high carbon sectors are supported with the transition in the wider context of the UK’s levelling up agenda 3) Better understanding and addressing barriers to recruitment, retention and progression in green jobs (including quality of work, pay, conditions, image, etc.) 4) Ensuring green jobs are open to all 5) Building on the work of the Green Jobs Taskforce to develop a clearer understanding of the green economy and how to define and measure it We will set out further detail on the Group’s precise remit and membership as part of a full terms of reference in the new year. Government plans to monitor the delivery of green jobs alongside other delivery metrics on net zero. We are looking to place climate at the centre of government decision-making. The Prime Minister personally chairs the Climate Action Strategy Committee (CAS). The Rt Hon Alok Sharma MP, COP 26 President, chairs the Climate Action Implementation Committee (CAI). These committees and supporting governance structures ensure that there are multiple forums empowered to identify and address the interdependencies within net zero, and between net zero and other priorities, and drive progress.
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