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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he is taking to reduce energy costs for energy-intensive businesses.

The Government recognises the importance of securing a competitive future for Its energy intensive industries (EIIs), and in recent years has provided them with extensive support, including more than £2 billion to help with energy costs and to protect jobs. As part of the its British Energy Security Strategy, the Government recently announced to extended the EII Compensation Scheme for a further three years. The scheme’s budget will be more than doubled. That strategy also announced plans to consider increasing support offered by the EII Exemption Scheme.