Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Industry

Earl Russell Excerpts

Wednesday 19th November 2025 Lords Chamber

[Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick (Lab)]

My Lords—

[Earl Russell (LD)]

My Lords—

[Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms and Chief Whip (Lord Kennedy of Southwark) (Lab Co-op)]

My Lords, it is the turn of the Lib Dem Benches.

[Earl Russell (LD)]

My Lords, I thank the Minister for saying that the Government will publish a strategy, I think he said, in due course and in a little while. May I push him to do that as soon as possible and remind him that the industry needs certainty in order to make the investments necessary?

[Lord Wilson of Sedgefield (Lab)]

I thank the noble Earl for that question as well. Obviously, we will publish the strategy when we are ready to do so, and we want to press ahead with that. We want to make sure that the money we spend on investment takes the industry in the right direction. We are offering surety, first, by looking at the strategy and, secondly, by meeting the industry next week and by taking this issue seriously with all the investments that we are making at the moment.