Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 20 January 2020 to Question 2480, to what projects she plans to allocate the £170 million Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund.
Through the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund, UK Research and Innovation will allocate up to £170 million to projects that will support the delivery of the Industrial Clusters Mission. There are three strands that the funding will cover: 1) projects to deliver or support the delivery of significant emissions reductions in industrial clusters; 2) the development of industrial cluster decarbonisation roadmaps; and 3) establishing an Industrial Decarbonisation Research and Innovation Centre.