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Office for Clean Energy Jobs Regional Skills Pilot: privacy notice

Published 22 July 2025

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The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) Office for Clean Energy Jobs launched a Regional Skills Pilot 2024, to support regional skills interventions in the following places:  

  • Aberdeen/Aberdeenshire delivered by Scottish Government and Skills Development Scotland
  • Cheshire West and Chester delivered by North West Net Zero Hub
  • North and North East Lincolnshire delivered by Midlands Net Zero Hub
  • Pembrokeshire delivered by Welsh Government and Regional Learning and Skills Partnership

This will be achieved by identifying and addressing skills gaps and challenges through targeted interventions trials on a regional basis. DESNZ has appointed an independent evaluator, RSM UK & Learning and Work Institute, to conduct an evaluation of the scheme.  

This Privacy Notice sets out how DESNZ will process your personal data and your rights. It is made under Articles 13 and/or 14 of the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR).  DESNZ is Independent Data Controller. You should also refer to each regions delivery partners Privacy Notice for information on how they process your data.

1. Your Data  

We will process the following personal data:  

From lead employees and / or consultants delivering on contracts under the skills pilot we will process the following:  

  • names  
  • email address  
  • telephone number  
  • name of business / employer  

From the end recipients of grant funding and grant funded activities the following personal data will be processed:  

  • name  
  • postcode  
  • email address  
  • telephone number  
  • name of business / employer (if applicable)  
  • name of college (if applicable)  
  • the funded activity undertaken by you as the end recipients  

The lead employees of those delivering on contracts under the skills pilots will provide data to third party evaluators through project monitoring activities. This data will be collected directly from the individuals and forwarded to DESNZ third party evaluators, RSM UK & Learning and Work Institute. 

The end recipients of grant funding, including attendees of training or events who may be employees of organisations, students of schools or colleges, or members of the public: benefitting from subsidised training funded through the Regional Skills Pilots will provide personal data upon signing-up for activity delivered under the skills pilots. Delivery partners will collect this data directly from the individuals.  

2. Purpose  

The purpose of the data sharing is for monitoring the progress of the Regional Skills Pilots, managing performance of organisations that have received funding and evaluating the effectiveness of the activities undertaken and this type of DESNZ skills funding.  

The lawful basis we rely on for processing this information is set out in Article 6(1)(e) of the UK GDPR.  

The Processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the data controller. The task will be the delivery of a Regional Skills Pilot and subsequent evaluation. Employees and representatives of delivery partners and end grant recipients may be contacted as part of an independent evaluation.  

4. Recipients  

Personal data will be shared with our contracted evaluator who may contact you on our behalf necessary to evaluate the Regional Skills Pilot and for future research. We may share your data if we are required to do so by law, for example by court order or to prevent fraud or other crime.  

As part of our IT infrastructure, your personal data will be stored on systems provided by our data processors - Microsoft and Amazon Web Services. This does not mean we actively share your personal data with these entities; rather, they are technical service providers who host infrastructure supporting our IT systems.  

5. Retention  

All personal data will be retained by the third-party evaluator for DESNZ for two years from the completion of the Regional Skills Pilot. After which, only anonymised data will be held by DESNZ.  

Evaluation data carried out by evaluators contracted by DESNZ through the skills pilots would be anonymised and captured electronically by delivery partners before it is shared to DESNZ.

6. International Transfers 

Your personal data will be processed in the UK. Your personal data will not be processed in the European Economic Area (EEA), or by an international organisation.   

7. Your Rights   

You have the right to:  

  • request information about how your personal data are processed, and to request a copy of that personal data
  • request that any inaccuracies in your personal data are rectified without delay 
  • request that any incomplete personal data are completed, including by means of a supplementary statement
  • request that your personal data are erased if there is no longer a justification for them to be processed
  • in certain circumstances (for example, where accuracy is contested) request that the processing of your personal data is restricted  
  • object to the processing of your personal data where it is processed for direct marketing purposes
  • object to the processing of your personal data  

To exercise your rights please contact the Data Protection Officer using the contact details below.  

8. Contact details   

The data controller for your personal data is the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ).

Contact the DESNZ DPO:

DESNZ Data Protection Officer
Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
3-8 Whitehall Place
London
SW1A 2EG

If you are unhappy with the way we have handled your personal data, please write to the department’s Data Protection Officer in the first instance using the contact details above.  

9. Complaints  

If you consider that your personal data has been misused or mishandled, you may make a complaint to the Information Commissioner, who is a UK independent regulator.

Contact the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO):

Email icocasework@ico.org.uk

Contact form https://ico.org.uk/mak...

Telephone 0303 123 1113

Any complaint to the Information Commissioner is without prejudice to your right to seek redress through the courts.

10. Updates to this notice  

If this privacy notice changes in any way, we will place an updated version on this page. Regularly reviewing this page ensures you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we will share it with other parties. The ‘last updated’ date at the bottom of this page will also change.  

If these changes affect how your personal data is processed, we will take reasonable steps to let you know.  

Last updated: 23 July 2025

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