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

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what payments her Department has made to (a) White Rose CCS, (b) Shell and (c) SSE since the cancellation of the carbon capture and storage competition.

Since the cancellation of the Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Competition, the Department has made the following payments to the bidders under the terms of the Front End Engineering and Design contracts between Government and each bidder:

White Rose Project

Capture Power Ltd: £26,377,223.86

Peterhead Project

Shell: £3,032,394

SSE: £0.