Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether BP has received any public funds in the last three years.

The number and variety of business structures bp operates in in the UK make it difficult to determine what public funding the company may have received. However if such funding has been provided, it will have been on the same basis as it would have been available to others.

The company decided not to apply for the funding made available to businesses by the Government to compensate them for the impact of the pandemic. It did, however, provide public support at that time, for example providing free fuel to the emergency services.