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Written Question
Carbon Emissions and Energy: North West
Tuesday 20th May 2025

Asked by: Andrew Gwynne (Independent - Gorton and Denton)

Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps he has taken to help support (a) energy and (b) decarbonisation industries in the North West.

Answered by Sarah Jones - Minister of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)

On 24th of April 2025, the HyNet Carbon Capture and Storage transport and storage network (Liverpool Bay CCS) which spans Northwest England and Wales, announced financial close, with a substantial pipeline of projects lining up to join the network. Along with the East Coast Cluster, these networks of green industry, backed by £21.7 billion in funding, will deliver thousands of jobs, billions of investment, and enable clean homegrown energy for years to come. Equally in 2024, the Stakehill Industrial Estate was granted £612,376 in support under the Local Industrial Decarbonisation Plan (LIDP) scheme, to develop a decarbonisation plan that includes the adoption of green technologies, energy efficiency upgrades and infrastructure solutions.