Oil and Gas Transition Training Fund 2025-2026: equalities impact assessment

Footnotes

1. Making-the-switch-images.pdf (rgueti.com) p.9

2. UKCS-Workforce-Dynamics-The-Skills-Landscape-2019-2025.pdf (rgueti.com) p.12

3. British Sociological Association press release referencing a study on age related discrimination in employment practices.

4. Ibid. This study additionally notes that outcomes worsen for older women and older women of colour.

5. Exploring the UK’s digital divide - Office for National Statistics (ons.gov.uk) – section 6

6. Scotland's Labour Market Insights: April 2025 - gov.scot. Disability is defined based on the Equality Act 2010. The disability employment rate gap is the difference between the employment rates for disabled and non-disabled people aged 16 to 64. It is calculated as the non-disabled employment rate minus disabled employment rate.

7. UKCS-Workforce-Dynamics-The-Skills-Landscape-2019-2025.pdf (rgueti.com) p.17 OEUK also note that “On average, men hold 76.27%” of the highest paid positions, “while women hold 23.73%.” p.29 Workforce-Insight-report-2023-OEUK-lwigdr (3).pdf

8. Women shoulder the responsibility of 'unpaid work' - Office for National Statistics

9. UKCS-Workforce-Dynamics-The-Skills-Landscape-2019-2025.pdf (rgueti.com) p.16

10. Hydrogen-Workforce-Assessment-Executive-Summaryfinal.pdf (cogentskills.com) p.5

2024 Workforce Census (ecitb.org.uk) p.59

OWIC Offshore Wind Skills Intelligence Report - March 2022 pp.38-39

CCSTFG-CCS-Labour-Market-Assessment-Report-FINAL-27.02.pdf (ecitb.org.uk) p.18

11. Clean Power 2030 Action Plan: A new era of clean electricity: Assessment of the clean energy skills challenge - evidence annex (publishing.service.gov.uk) Making-the-switch-images.pdf (rgueti.com) p.11 UKCS-diversity-and-inclusion-survey-Report-Final-v150421-stxczm.pdf p.8

12. 2024 Workforce Census (ecitb.org.uk) pp.56-57