Energy Intensive Industries: Subsidies
(asked on 2nd June 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department for Business and Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how much the Government spent on subsidies to high energy using industries last year.
This question was answered on 7th June 2023
Over £450 million was provided across the Energy Intensive Industry schemes in 2022. This was in addition to support provided by the Energy Bill Relief Scheme (EBRS) for businesses and other non-domestic customers. The EBRS ended on 31 March 2023 and provided around £7 billion of support to businesses, including high energy using industries.