Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask His Majesty's Government whether funding from the UK Shipping Office for Reducing Emissions will extend to Northern Ireland and be available to companies for their work in Northern Ireland.

UK SHORE funding is open to organisations in all four nations of the UK. There has been at least one project involving businesses from Northern Ireland in each round of the Clean Maritime Demonstration Competitions, and we anticipate Northern Irish businesses will apply for both the seventh round of the Clean Maritime Demonstration Competition (CMDC7) and second round of the Zero Emission Vessels and Infrastructure competition (ZEVI2). Prospective applicants can seek further information from Innovate UK who are running roadshow events on the funding across the UK, including in Northern Ireland.