Asked by: Harriet Cross (Conservative - Gordon and Buchan)
Question to the Department for Business and Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if his Department will consider the potential merits of including electricity-intensive food and drink manufacturers, such as distillers, in the scope of the British Industrial Competitiveness Scheme.
Answered by Chris McDonald - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
The Government recently closed a consultation on eligibility for the British Industrial Competitiveness Scheme (BICS) where businesses were invited to share their views on the proposed methodology and an indicative list of eligible sectors. Decisions on eligibility will now be taken to ensure the scheme is properly geared towards boosting growth in the economy; through attracting investment in Industrial Strategy frontier manufacturing sectors and foundational manufacturing industries that supply key inputs to the Industrial Strategy frontier sectors.
The Industrial Strategy frontier and foundational sectors were selected following the Government’s consultation of the Modern Industrial Strategy in the autumn of 2024.
Asked by: Harriet Cross (Conservative - Gordon and Buchan)
Question to the Department for Business and Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many redundancy notifications his Department received between 1 November 2024 and the latest date for which information is available.
Answered by Justin Madders
In the period 1 November 2024 to 1 June 2025, 2,574 HR1 Advance Notification of Redundancies have been received.
The Insolvency Service has released this Management Information (MI) to meet stakeholder needs for this data in a timely way. This MI is not classified as Official Statistics: it has not been rigorously quality assured and may be subject to revision.