Ministerial Foreword 3

Executive Summary 5

Purpose 5

The Challenges 5

Outcomes 6

Sector Context 7

The Economic Opportunity 7

Scope 7

Current Workforce Profile 8

Life Sciences in all areas of the UK 10

Workforce Diversity 13

Domestic and International Talent 14

Workforce Requirements and Sector Challenges 15

Challenge 1: Meeting demand for 66,000 additional highly skilled jobs 16

Challenge 2: Improving routes into the sector and ensuring work-readiness of new entrants 17

Challenge 3: Supporting a skills and training system that can adapt to include emerging technologies and other necessary skill sets 17

Challenge 4: Supporting SMEs to access the skills and training offer 18

Challenges across the UK’s devolved nations 19

Actions 21

Improving sector coordination 22

Skills 26

Hiring 32

Good Jobs 36