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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department is taking steps to expand the production of green hydrogen using electrolysis.

The Government have doubled its ambition to up to 10GW of low carbon hydrogen production capacity by 2030, subject to affordability and value for money. At least half of this will come from electrolytic hydrogen, for which the Government is aiming to run annual allocation rounds.

The first round, offering support from our Net Zero Hydrogen Fund (capital funding) and from the Hydrogen Production Business Model (revenue support) closed on 12 October. A second allocation round is planned for launch in 2023.