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 develop tidal power as a significant alternative source of energy in light of the energy security situation caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

The UK has the world's largest deployment of tidal stream power, and the Government took steps to accelerate that deployment with the announcement in November 2021 that the ongoing Contracts for Difference Allocation Round 4 will feature a ringfenced budget for tidal stream developments. Moreover, the Government remains open to considering well-developed proposals for harnessing the tidal range energy in our bays and estuaries, provided that such proposals can demonstrate clear and beneficial impacts on the energy system and good value for money.