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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether he has had discussions with the Secretary of State for International Trade on the potential export opportunities presented by industrial clusters; and whether his Department is taking steps to develop such clusters.

The Government is working to position the UK to take advantage of the export opportunities presented by the development of low carbon technologies and services in industrial clusters and beyond. As outlined in the CCUS and Hydrogen Investor Roadmaps, these technologies represent an opportunity to develop world-leading UK supply chains. This will be facilitated by UK Export Finance, the UK’s export credit agency, which has enhanced its support to attract investment and support exports in CCUS and hydrogen.