Carbon Capture and Storage

(asked on 12th January 2017) - View Source
Questioner
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Tom Blenkinsop
(Labour - Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland)

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how much money the Government invested in carbon capture and storage projects in each year between 2010 and 2015.

Answered by
Jesse Norman Portrait
Jesse Norman
This question was answered on 17th January 2017

In each year between 2010 and 2015, the Government has invested the following in carbon capture and storage projects:

  • £1.39 million between 2011 and 2012
  • £ 4.87 million in 2012/13;
  • £ 15.45 million in 2013/14;
  • £ 50.60 million in 2014/15; and
  • £ 33.87 million in 2015/16.

Figures for the 2015/16 financial year are provisional.

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