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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he is taking to ensure that demand for electricity in the UK does not outstrip supply in the next six months of 2018; and if he will make a statement.

The Capacity Market (CM) is at the heart of the Government’s plans for a reliable electricity system, and through CM auctions that have already been held we have secured all the capacity needed to meet expected demand on the system in 2018/19.

National Grid’s Summer Outlook 2018, published in April, confirmed electricity supplies are expected to be sufficient to meet demand this Summer while its 2018 Winter Review and Consultation 2018, published in June, states that electricity margins for the coming Winter are expected to be in line with the healthy margin of 10.3% we had for Winter 2017/18.