Carbon Capture and Storage

(asked on 3rd July 2015) - View Source
Questioner
Caroline Flint Portrait
Caroline Flint
(Labour - Don Valley)

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how much the Government has spent to support carbon capture and storage technology in each year since 2010-11.

Answered by
Andrea Leadsom Portrait
Andrea Leadsom
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 9th July 2015

The Government has in place a comprehensive programme of financial support for CCS, comprising R&D and innovation funding, support for commercialisation through the £1bn CCS Competition, and work to develop an enabling policy environment for power and industrial CCS in the UK and internationally. We are currently negotiating the first Contract for Difference for CCS as part of the Competition.

Since 2010/11, Government has spent the following in support of Carbon Capture and Storage technology:

  • £55.96million between 2010 and 2012;
  • £9.79million in 2012/13;
  • £24.74million in 2013/14; and
  • £54.99million in 2014/15.
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