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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what progress the Government has made on its plans for four industrial carbon capture and storage clusters by 2035.

The Government is committed to establishing Carbon Capture Usage and Storage (CCUS) in four industrial clusters by 2030.

In November 2021, Hynet and the East Coast Cluster were announced as Track 1 CCUS clusters. In August 2022, Government took a significant step forward in the Cluster Sequencing process by announcing a shortlist of 20 projects.

The Government is developing and refining the Track-2 process and is developing business models designed to address the commercial barriers that have previously had an impact on the development of CCUS in the UK.