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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a requirement for statistics relating to carbon capture and storage to be published before Carbon Capture and Storage projects become operational.

The Government will publish information on projects that are recipients of government support before they become operational. For industrial and power capture projects, this may also include information submitted under supply chain reporting requirements. The Government is also developing a plan to monitor and evaluate statistics from emitters in the longer term.