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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he is taking to support trials of manufacturing steel with hydrogen.

The Department is working with the steel sector, via the Steel Council, on creating a competitive, sustainable, and low carbon future for the sector. Hydrogen-based steelmaking is one of the technological approaches being examined as part of this process.

The UK steel sector can bid into industrial fuel switching innovation programmes under the Net Zero Innovation Portfolio (NZIP), which is intended to promote switching away from more carbon-intensive fuel sources.

The Government has also set up the Industrial Decarbonisation and Hydrogen Revenue Support scheme to fund =new hydrogen and industrial carbon capture business models. The scheme will be open to business across industry, including steel companies.