Oral Answers to Questions

Alex Cunningham Excerpts

Tuesday 21st March 2023 Commons Chamber

[Catherine West (Hornsey and Wood Green) (Lab)]

11. What fiscal steps he is taking with Cabinet colleagues to support the economy in reaching net-zero carbon emissions.

[Alex Cunningham (Stockton North) (Lab)]

17. What fiscal steps he is taking with Cabinet colleagues to support the economy in reaching net-zero carbon emissions.

[Jeff Smith (Manchester, Withington) (Lab)]

20. What fiscal steps he is taking with Cabinet colleagues to support the economy in reaching net-zero carbon emissions.

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[Alex Cunningham]

While the sector would have liked more, I welcome the £20 billion over 20 years for carbon capture, use and storage in the Budget. Will the Minister now confirm that the Teesside-Humber project will go ahead and how additional clusters will be selected through the track-2 process?

[James Cartlidge]

I pay tribute to the hon. Gentleman for his consistency—he raised this with me on Thursday in my winding-up speech on the Budget debate. As I said then, we will announce further details soon, but I can confirm that I will be meeting the Carbon Capture and Storage Association tomorrow. I look forward to the meeting. This is an incredibly important step forward, because we must remember that carbon capture does not just give us clean energy, but enables heavy industry to decarbonise.