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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether the levy established to support energy intensive industries through the Electricity Supplier Obligations (Amended and Excluded Electricity) (Amendment) Regulations 2017 will count as a new levy under the terms of the Control for Low Carbon Levies.

This is not a new levy. The exemption for eligible energy intensive industries from up to 85% of the Contract-for-Difference supplier obligation is not a low carbon electricity levy and therefore not under scope of the Control for Low Carbon Levies.