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Fourth Special Report - Green Jobs: Government Response to the Committee’s Third Report

Published 20 January 2022

Environmental Audit Committee Green Jobs Report on parliament.uk ↗

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The government's response

This document responds to Third Report - Green Jobs.

This is the government's response, published 20 January 2022.

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

The government welcomes the Committee's focus on green jobs and skills, points to its Net Zero Strategy and a new Green Jobs Delivery Group, and in places declines to set out the requested plans, costings or measures.

  • A Green Jobs Delivery Group will include ministers from BEIS, Defra, DfE, DWP and DfT alongside an industry co-chair, with further detail "in the new year".
  • On indicative costings for green jobs actions, it says further allocations depend on ongoing policy development, so "it is not possible to set these out to the Committee at this point".
  • On a module on environmental sustainability in every apprenticeship and T Level, it says "we do not believe that a generic sustainability module across every occupational standard is appropriate". Sustainability elements are included "where occupationally relevant".
  • On the Careers Strategy, it says it "currently do[es] not plan to update" it, as it has been superseded by the Skills for Jobs white paper.

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