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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether he has made a comparative assessment of the (a) decarbonisation needs and (b) costs of industrial processing plants and facilities that are (i) dispersed in location in the UK and (ii) situated within an industrial cluster.

A comparative analysis of the decarbonisation needs of clustered and dispersed industrial sites is contained in Annex 4 of the Industrial Decarbonisation Strategy. Analysis carried out for the Net Zero Strategy found that additional private and public investment of at least £14 billion would be needed to achieve the level of emissions reductions required in the industry sector by 2037.