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Written Question
Energy Intensive Industries: Staff
Tuesday 1st April 2025

Asked by: Lord Elliott of Mickle Fell (Conservative - Life peer)

Question to the Department for Business and Trade:

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Jones of Whitchurch on 11 March (HL5240), what is the turnover and gross value added for each of the 73 industries covered in their definition of energy-intensive industry.

Answered by Baroness Jones of Whitchurch - Baroness in Waiting (HM Household) (Whip)

  • Data from the latest ONS Annual Business Survey on energy intensive industries (EIIs) for turnover and GVA in 2022 was published in 2024 and can be seen in full as an attachment.
  • In 2022, the EIIs with the highest turnover were manufacture of refined petroleum products (£56.2 billion), manufacture of basic iron and steel and of ferro-alloys (£9.2 billion), and manufacture of prepared feeds for farm animals (£8.0 billion).
  • EIIs with the highest GVA in 2022 were manufacture of refined petroleum products (£5.4 billion), manufacture of other plastic products (£2.7 billion), and manufacture of plastic plates, sheets, tubes and profiles (£2.3 billion).
Written Question
Energy Intensive Industries: Staff
Tuesday 11th March 2025

Asked by: Lord Elliott of Mickle Fell (Conservative - Life peer)

Question to the Department for Business and Trade:

To ask His Majesty's Government how many people are employed in energy-intensive industries by (1) region, and (2) industry.

Answered by Baroness Jones of Whitchurch - Baroness in Waiting (HM Household) (Whip)

The Department for Business and Trade maintains statistics on energy intensive industries (EII) which can be seen in full as an attachment.

In 2022, the regions with the highest employment in eligible energy intensive industries were the North West (59,590), the West Midlands (55,055) and Yorkshire and The Humber (53,135).

EIIs with the highest employment in 2022 were manufacture of other plastic products (45,850), manufacture of corrugated paper and paperboard and of containers of paper and paperboard (25,443), and processing and preserving of poultry meat (25,000).

Written Question
Employment Rights Bill
Monday 28th October 2024

Asked by: Lord Elliott of Mickle Fell (Conservative - Life peer)

Question to the Department for Business and Trade:

To ask His Majesty's Government why they have not yet submitted an impact assessment of the measures outlined in the Employment Rights Bill to the Regulatory Policy Committee; when they plan to do so; and whether they plan to place a copy of that impact assessment in the Library of the House.

Answered by Baroness Jones of Whitchurch - Baroness in Waiting (HM Household) (Whip)

On Monday 21 October, the Government published a comprehensive package of analysis on the impact of the Employment Rights Bill [Employment Rights Bill: impact assessments - GOV.UK ].

These Impact Assessments have been submitted to the Regulatory Policy Committee who have acknowledged their receipt [Employment Rights Bill: statement on lateness of IA submission - GOV.UK ].

As is standard practice, this has also been published on the Employment Rights Bill page on the Parliament UK website [Employment Rights Bill publications - Parliamentary Bills - UK Parliament ].