To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change pursuant to his statement on 23 April 2009, Official Report, columns 382-84, on coal carbon capture and storage, what assessment he has made of the effect on his Department’s carbon capture and storage (CCS) competition of the additional CCS demonstration projects. (283179)

The proposals announced on 23 April 2009 are intended to complement the current CCS demonstration competition and therefore the competition will proceed as set out in the Budget statement.