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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what progress has been made towards achieving the Government's target of 5GW hydrogen production.

Meeting the Government’s ambition of 5GW of low carbon hydrogen production capacity by 2030, outlined in the Ten Point Plan for a Green Industrial Revolution and the Energy White Paper, will require a range of policies and action from various actors, including government of all levels, industry and investors.

We have already announced £240m funding for the Net Zero Hydrogen Fund, made hydrogen a priority in our £1bn Net Zero Innovation Programme, and later this year will bring forward further details on hydrogen business models and the revenue mechanism to stimulate private investment in new low carbon hydrogen production facilities. Further detail on how the UK intends to deliver the 5GW ambition will be set out in the forthcoming UK Hydrogen Strategy, which will be published in the first half of this year.