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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many applicants submitted proposals to the offshore wind manufacturing investment scheme.

On 6 October my Rt. Hon. Friend the Prime Minister announced £160m to support offshore wind and infrastructure across the UK. We announced in March an investment of up to £75m for developing port infrastructure on the Humber and up to £20m for further investment on Teesside.

The UK Government also launched the Offshore Wind Investment Programme on the 22 February to support the delivery of manufacturing investment in the offshore wind supply chain. Whilst the scheme is still running I cannot comment further.