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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps his Department is taking to encourage the installation of localised carbon capture and storage equipment at (a) waste incinerators and (b) other carbon-dioxide emitting plants.

The Government aims to capture and store 20-30 million tonnes of carbon dioxide per year by 2030, including from waste management and other industrial facilities. In August, the Government announced a 20-project shortlist to progress to the due diligence stage of the Track-1 Cluster Sequencing process. Support for projects will be delivered via new business models and the £1 billion Carbon Capture and Storage Infrastructure Fund.

In addition, the £289 million Industrial Energy Transformation Fund (IETF) and the Scottish IETF can support sites to invest in decarbonisation technologies, including onsite carbon capture.