Carbon Capture and Storage

Part of Energy and Climate Change – in the House of Commons at 10:30 am on 9 July 2009.

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Photo of Peter Lilley Peter Lilley Conservative, Hitchin and Harpenden 10:30, 9 July 2009

Can the Secretary of State confirm that the Minister in another place said during a debate on the carbon budgets—alas, we have not had that debate in this Chamber—that there was no realistic prospect of commercial carbon capture and storage before 2025 and that, therefore, when the Prime Minister offered the prospect of four such stations as a way of helping us out of the recession, he was either misleading the House or presupposing that the recession is going to go on for another decade and a half?