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 support scientific research into ways to reduce methane emissions.

The Department is undertaking research and working with partner organisations including the Met Office and National Physical Laboratory, to understand sources of methane emissions in the UK. The Department supports research into the restoration of UK wetlands, which if done appropriately, can avoid methane emissions. The Department also supports a wide range of innovation projects that look at alternatives to the use of methane as a fuel, including projects which trial the use of hydrogen.