Transport Sector Vacancies and Shortage Occupations

Part of Transport – in the House of Commons at on 13 October 2022.

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Photo of Anne-Marie Trevelyan Anne-Marie Trevelyan The Secretary of State for Transport

The newly established transport employment and skills taskforce is already taking steps to identify and address the shortage of skills and jobs across the transport sector that we face now, and it is thinking about how we tackle this for the future. We are supporting new HGV driver training through apprenticeships and we are working with the Department for Work and Pensions to support jobseekers to become HGV drivers. We want to make sure that we grow this pool. This is a challenge not only in the UK, but across the world, and we want to make sure that we are at the front end of bringing these new young people into this industry.