Energy Prices: Energy-intensive Industries Debate

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Department: Department for Business and Trade

Energy Prices: Energy-intensive Industries

Christine Jardine Excerpts
Thursday 1st May 2025

(2 days, 6 hours ago)

Commons Chamber
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Sarah Jones Portrait Sarah Jones
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I think the hon. Gentleman knows that his own party are the experts on deindustrialisation, which we saw significantly across all parts of our manufacturing sector, including at INEOS. I regularly meet INEOS, as do the Secretary of State and other colleagues, and we are looking at what we can do to support the sector. It faces a lot of challenges, and we are looking to try to resolve them.

Christine Jardine Portrait Christine Jardine (Edinburgh West) (LD)
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My constituents in Edinburgh West, like many others across Scotland and the UK, depend on energy-intensive industries for their livelihoods: defence, whisky and Grangemouth. How can the Minister reassure people who are already suffering because of high domestic energy prices that the situation will not be made worse by losing jobs in those industries?