RSG launches strategy on skills shortages

Patrick McLoughin: ‘We estimate we need 10,000 new engineers’
 
Left to right: Rail Supply Group chair Terence Watson, skills secretary Sajid Javid, and transport secretary Patrick McLoughlin
 
The UK’s rail industry supply sector has launched a strategy to address existing skills shortages and create the expertise required to deliver major railway engineering projects planned over the next decade including HS2 and the digital railway. It includes targets for 20,000 a