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Carbon Capture and Storage

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Question for Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

UIN 114755, tabled on 21 November 2017

Question

Alex Cunningham
Labour
Stockton North
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 13 November 2017 to Question 111997, on carbon capture and storage, at what level the Government's ambition will be set for deploying carbon capture usage and storage during the 2030s.

Answer

Claire Perry
Conservative
Devizes
Commons

Answered on

27 November 2017

The Government’s Clean Growth Strategy confirms that the Government’s ambition is to deploy carbon capture usage and storage (CCUS) at scale during the 2030s, subject to costs coming down sufficiently. The Government will publish a deployment pathway for CCUS in 2018, informed by the CCUS Cost Challenge Task Force, which will set out the steps needed achieve this ambition.

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