PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Carbon Capture, Usage and Storage and Hydrogen (14 March 2022)

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he will take to ensure that policy and regulation in the development of hydrogen and carbon capture, utilisation and storage in the UK supports the development of UK capability as part of delivering value for money for the public purse.

Asked by:
Graham Stuart (Conservative)

The UK Hydrogen Strategy makes clear that maximising UK capabilities across the value chain is a key aim of developing our hydrogen economy. The Strategy committed government to publishing a Sector Development Action Plan in 2022, which will set out what government and industry will do to the support the UK supply chain to develop capabilities in production, transportation, distribution and storage and various end uses.

The Government’s Carbon Capture, Usage & Storage (CCUS) supply chain roadmap sets out how government and industry can support UK capability in the CCUS supply chain as part of an investable, cost-effective and delivery focused sector. The industrial clusters will be the starting point for a new carbon capture industry, which could support up to 50,000 jobs in the UK by 2030, including a sizeable export potential.

Answered by:
Greg Hands (Conservative)
22 March 2022