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

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the possibility of geothermal energy providing part of future UK energy needs.

The most promising use of geothermal energy in the UK is for heat applications. The Government is supporting the North East Local Energy Partnership to commission a research report to provide an evidence-based assessment of existing and future geothermal potential for heat in the UK. This work is also part funded by the North East & Yorkshire Net Zero Hub. The British Geological Society will be undertaking this work with the engineering consultancy Arup. This builds on UKRI funding to develop the UK Geoenergy Observatories, which aim to inform how geoenergy can help to deliver clean economic growth.