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Committee Material Published 24 Oct 2025 ↗ View on Parliament

Given what is at stake if transition is mismanaged, we are disappointed that Unite the Union has been unable to share, as promised, its plan to create 35,000 energy transition jobs. The plan might have been a valuable and timely contribution to our inquiry and could have assisted us in developing our recommendations to the Government while it develops its own North Sea transition plan. Unite’s clear failure to supply the plan ultimately casts doubt over its existence. (Conclusion, Paragraph 83)

Given what is at stake if transition is mismanaged, we are disappointed that Unite the Union has been unable to share, as promised, its plan to create 35,000 energy transition jobs. The plan might have been a valuable and timely contribution to our inquiry and could have assisted us in developing our recommendations to the Government while it develops its own North Sea transition plan. Unite’s clear failure to supply the plan ultimately casts doubt over its existence. (Conclusion, Paragraph 83) Type: conclusion | Number: 10 | Response status: not_addressed Government response: We have published our Clean Energy Jobs Plan, which sets a pathway for the clean energy workforce to nearly double from around 440,000 in 2023 to around 860,000 jobs supported across clean energy sectors and their supply chains by 2030, in order to deliver our Clean Energy Superpower Mission. In the