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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he is taking to support the growth of the hydrogen sector in the UK.

The Government detailed the key steps needed to deliver the ambition for 5GW of low carbon hydrogen production capacity by 2030 in its Hydrogen Strategy, published in August 2021.

The Hydrogen Strategy set out almost £1 billion of government funding for hydrogen and other low carbon technologies, including a £240 million Net Zero Hydrogen Fund.  The Government has since announced the Industrial Decarbonisation and Hydrogen Revenue Support scheme to provide £100million funding for up to 250MW of initial electrolytic hydrogen projects allocated in 2023, with a further allocation round in 2024 and plans to announce a funding envelope for up to 1GW of CCUS-enabled hydrogen in 2022.