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

To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Henley on 16 April (HL15075), whether they will publish the minutes of the discussions between the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) on the possibility of new research funding for Greenhouse Gas Removal (GGR) demonstrators; when a decision will be reached on new funding for such demonstrators; and what further meetings are planned with UKRI to discuss GGR technologies.

A decision on new funding for GGR demonstrators is pending with the my rt. hon. Friend Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, and with HM Treasury. No further meetings with UKRI on the specific topic of GGR technologies are currently planned.