Mr. Paul Healy:

I would begin with the model and manner with which we engage with business. It is very much enterprise- or demand-led. These are clusters or groups of companies that identify the gaps and the issues themselves and then we collaborate with them to meet and design programmes that address those issues.

We are witnessing a growing engagement with companies but it is not standard. We see evidence that shows larger corporations and bigger businesses are more engaged in the decarbonisation agenda and they are certainly more engaged on the talent aspect of it and developing their people compared with the domestic SME sector. It is the typical reasons with which we may all be familiar: smaller firms are time poor; they are distracted with other agendas; and they may face a cost challenge that larger corporations do not. There is always the challenge of navigating the whole support ecosystem between education, grant supports and so on to help a small business in its decarbonisation journey. We see evidence, and we see it through our own numbers, of a growing appetite from companies from the enterprise sector to engage in decarbonisation and sustainability-related training programmes but it is not standard or homogenous. It is different by sector and by company.