What assessment has the Minister made of the impact of the skills shortage on achieving energy performance targets for housing?
The new Welsh Housing Quality Standard 2023, when published will help to develop the knowledge, skills and supply chains needed to service both the social housing stock and the private housing sector.
My officials are working with the Welsh Government Department for Economy and Skills along with industry bodies such as the Construction Industry Training Board and Federation of Master Builders in assessing skills and the supply chain needs of both products and services.
This has resulted in the publication of the Net Zero Skills Wales Action Plan in February this year. This Action Plan is looking at eight emission sectors including residential buildings.
The next phase of this work will be a sector wide skills consultation, which will capture sector specific skills requirements. This consultation will set out the current skills position for each sector, skills that are needed in the short, medium and longer term and how we will achieve these.
This will lead to a sector skills roadmap and an implementation phase.