Submission 122
AELP Industrial Strategy Green Paper – Consultation Roundtable
AELP Submission
AELP Response
- What are the key enablers and barriers to growth in key sub sectors and how could the UK government address them?
The Employer Skills Survey states that over a third of UK job vacancies in 2022 were due to skills shortages, an increase from 22% in 20171. These skills gaps are a significant barrier to growth in key sectors. Employers are struggling to hire workers with the appropriate skills at a time when 872,000 young people are not in education, employment or training. This means there are people without jobs and jobs without people. According to the Confederation of British Industry’s Employment Trends Survey, 71% of employers surveyed believed skills gaps were a threat to the UK economy’s competitiveness, with labour shortages coming in second at 58%2.
As the Skills England reports ‘we will need skilled workers to deliver our commitment to build 1.5 million new homes, to make our country a clean energy superpower, and to ensure we have an NHS fit fir the future’. 3 Some examples covering priority sectors include:
AELP Industrial Strategy Green Paper – Consultation Roundtable
Submission 122
