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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what funding he has allocated to investment in a hydrogen economy between 2020-21 and 2025-26.

The Government is committed to exploring the option of hydrogen as a strategic decarbonised energy carrier. In line with this we are currently investing up to £121 million in hydrogen innovation, supporting a range of projects exploring the potential of low carbon hydrogen across the value chain. Alongside our innovation activity, we will be engaging with Industry on the design of a £100m Low Carbon Hydrogen Fund in 2020. In addition, we are conducting further stakeholder engagement, notably around building sustainable business models to support hydrogen production. These programmes will be delivered during the period 2020/21 to 2025/26, and further budgetary decisions will be taken in due course.