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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, Pursuant to the Answer of 12 January 2023 to Question 118973 on Iron and Steel: Manufacturing Industries, if he will make an estimate of the potential impact of successful applications made by steel plants to the £1.5 billion fund on levels of carbon emissions from those plants.

Together with all existing and new support outlined in the Net Zero Strategy we will continue to work together with industry to support the sector’s transition to a competitive, sustainable, and low carbon future. It’s not possible to calculate the impact of these schemes on carbon emissions at this this stage, as many of the projects are still in progress, but we hope to provide a figure in due course.