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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to his Department's policy paper entitled UK Hydrogen Strategy published in August 2021, what steps his Department has taken to implement that paper's proposals.

The Government published the UK Hydrogen Strategy Update to Market in July 2022, which fully outlines substantial Government progress against the proposals in the UK Hydrogen Strategy and intends to publish two updates to the market each year. The Government launched the first allocation round for electrolytic hydrogen projects, offering joint Hydrogen Business Model and Net Zero Hydrogen Fund support, and selected four hydrogen projects to proceed to the due diligence stage of the Phase-2 Cluster Sequencing process.