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 wider infrastructure required to deliver industrial decarbonisation; and how those requirements will be including when assessing bids in Phase 2 of its CCUS Cluster Sequencing Process.

Industrial emissions need to drop by 63-76% by 2035. Achieving this means going further and faster on fuel switching and carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS). The Government is working with industry to understand what changes and developments of network and storage infrastructure would be required to enable the UK to reach these ambitions.

The assessment of Phase-2 CCUS cluster sequencing projects is ongoing, during which project submissions will be assessed against several criteria, including the credibility and deliverability of their plans to connect to the Transport & Storage Networks selected in Phase-1.