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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps his Department is taking to develop a carbon capture and storage cluster in the North West.

The Government’s Clean Growth Strategy, published on 12 October 2017, commits Government to working with ongoing initiatives in Teesside, Merseyside, South Wales and Grangemouth to test the potential for development of carbon capture usage and storage (CCUS) industrial decarbonisation clusters.

To progress this, the Department is engaging with Cadent, Peel Environmental, and Progressive Energy on their proposals to create a low-carbon hydrogen cluster with CCUS supplying industry and consumers in the Liverpool and Manchester area.