Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of the hydrogen village trial in Whitby not going ahead on the Government's ambition of producing 10GW of low carbon hydrogen production capacity by 2030; and what recent assessment he has made of the potential contribution of other village trials to meeting that ambition.

The UK’s ambition for 10GW of low carbon hydrogen production capacity by 2030 is not reliant on any one project or trial. Demand in 2030 is mostly expected to come from harder to electrify parts of the economy such as industry and heavy transport, as well as playing an important role in decarbonising the power sector.

The Government is developing the proposal for a hydrogen village trial in Redcar, Teesside with Northern Gas Networks (NGN). A decision on whether to proceed with the village trial in Redcar will be made by the Government later this year.