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 (a) progress the Government's application to the European Commission to exempt and (b) bring forward legislative proposals related to the exemption of energy intensive industries from the indirect costs of the renewables obligation and small scale feed-in-tariffs.
We are in discussions with the European Commission about our state aid pre-notification to move from compensation to exemption for the indirect cost of the Renewables Obligation (RO) and small-scale Feed-in Tariffs (FiTs).