Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of a shared network infrastructure to support a liquid UK hydrogen market.

The Government recognises that network infrastructure will provide the link between production and demand, and is essential to the development of the hydrogen economy. Further work is needed to determine what the optimal hydrogen network looks like, and this will cover both pipeline and non-pipeline distribution. In the UK Hydrogen Strategy, the Government sets out a commitment to undertake a review of systemic hydrogen network requirements in the 2020s. This review is underway, and the Government has committed to provide an update on systemic hydrogen network requirements early this year.