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

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to The Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult’s report Cost Reduction Pathway of Tidal Stream Energy in the UK and France, published on 17 October, whether they will set a 2030 target for tidal stream energy as they have done for offshore wind, nuclear and hydrogen production.

The Government welcomes the Catapult’s report and will continue to work with the sector to promote deployment of tidal energy where feasible. Over 40MW of new tidal stream power has been secured in Scotland and Wales via the Contracts for Difference scheme this year. This was the first time that tidal stream power has been procured at this scale.