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Written Question
Hydrogen
Thursday 2nd May 2024

Asked by: Christian Wakeford (Labour - Bury South)

Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps her Department is taking to help encourage uptake in the use of hydrogen.

Answered by Andrew Bowie - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)

Our regulatory and policy framework is designed to support offtakers to switch to hydrogen, and includes innovation funding, CAPEX and ongoing revenue support.

DESNZ’s Hydrogen Production Business Model will provide ongoing revenue support to incentivise production and use of low carbon hydrogen. The first in our planned yearly allocation rounds for the Hydrogen Production Business Model represented the largest number of commercial scale green hydrogen projects announced at once anywhere in Europe, and the second round has already closed to applications. Our hydrogen transport and storage business models will link up production and demand, enabling security of supply for offtakers.


Written Question
Nuclear Power: Technology
Wednesday 3rd May 2023

Asked by: Christian Wakeford (Labour - Bury South)

Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps he is taking with Cabinet colleagues to support nuclear technology companies.

Answered by Andrew Bowie - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)

The Government provides a range of support to nuclear technology companies. This includes:

  • Investment of £700m to develop the Sizewell C project;
  • Grant schemes such as the up to £120m Future Nuclear Enabling Fund and up to £75m Nuclear Fuel Fund to support, respectively, new nuclear projects and the UK’s nuclear fuel supply chain;
  • R&D initiatives like the up to £385m Advanced Nuclear Fund that funds Small Modular Reactor (SMR) and Advanced Modular Reactor development. Up to £210m of this is helping to develop Rolls Royce’s SMR design; and
  • Launching Great British Nuclear to drive delivery of new nuclear projects.