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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will provide increased funding for (a) scientific research into the climate and (b) investing in new technologies to help reduce climate change.

The Net Zero Strategy committed at least £1.5bn of funding to support net zero innovation between 2022-25. The Department will deliver its share of this through the £1bn Net Zero Innovation Portfolio. Investment in climate science research also remains a priority and the Hadley Centre Climate Programme has received more than £60m of funding in the last spending review for 2022 - 2025.