{"id":882239,"date":"2026-01-01T02:21:43","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T08:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/01\/mps-call-for-foreign-workers-to-help-plug-skill-gaps\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T02:21:43","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T08:21:43","slug":"mps-call-for-foreign-workers-to-help-plug-skill-gaps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/01\/mps-call-for-foreign-workers-to-help-plug-skill-gaps\/","title":{"rendered":"MPs call for foreign workers to help plug skill gaps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government should encourage foreign retrofit and construction workers to come to the UK as part of a \u201csignificant new intervention\u201d to plug skill gaps \u2013 or risk missing its net zero targets, a committee of MPs has said. In a 61-page report published today,\u2026<br \/>\nThe post MPs call for foreign workers to help plug skill gaps appeared first on Construction News&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.constructionnews.co.uk\/skills\/mps-call-for-foreign-workers-to-help-plug-skill-gaps-05-12-2025\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n James Wilmore<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government should encourage foreign retrofit and construction workers to come to the UK as part of a \u201csignificant new intervention\u201d to plug skill gaps \u2013 or risk missing its net zero targets, a committee of MPs has said. In a 61-page report published today,\u2026 The post MPs call for foreign workers to help plug<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":882240,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4303,192,198],"tags":[6333,5910],"class_list":{"0":"post-882239","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-foreign","8":"category-sports","9":"category-workers","10":"tag-foreign","11":"tag-workers"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=882239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/882240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=882239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=882239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=882239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}