Question to the Department for Business and Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps her Department is taking to support the surface engineering sector with energy costs.

Businesses, including the surface engineering sector, have already benefitted from the Energy Bill Relief Scheme which ended on 31 March 2023 and provided £7 billion of support. Businesses will continue to get a discount on gas and electricity bills under the Energy Bills Discount Scheme (EBDS), until 31 March 2024.

Under the EBDS, non-domestic customers who have a contract with a licensed energy supplier will see a baseline discount of up to £6.97/MWh automatically applied to their gas bill and up to £19.61/MWh to their electricity bill.