Carbon Sequestration
Energy and Climate Change

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Julian Smith (Skipton and Ripon, Conservative)

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change with reference to his Department's Carbon Capture and Storage Roadmap, what the timetable is for the development of a strategy for carbon capture and storage outside the power sector.

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Charles Hendry (Minister of State (Renewable Energy), Energy and Climate Change; Wealden, Conservative)

The CCS Roadmap, which was published on 3 April, explored the long-term development of CCS for both power and energy intensive industries. The CCS Commercialisation programme, which was launched alongside the Roadmap, makes available £1 billion in capital grant funding to support projects to develop CCS. Following closure of bids on 3 July, decisions on which projects to support will be made in the autumn following an assessment and evaluation process.

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