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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what estimate his Department has made of the cost to the public purse of launching, running and closing the Carbon Capture and Storage Commercialisation Programme Competition.

As set out in the National Audit Office report published in January 2017, the Government spent £100 million on the Carbon Capture and Storage Commercialisation Programme Competition.

The full report, ‘Carbon Capture and Storage: the second competition for government support’ is available at: https://www.nao.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Carbon-Capture-and-Storage-the-second-competition-for-government-support.pdf