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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 25 November 2022 to Question 84890 on Emergency Services: Power Failures, whether emergency services of regional significance are automatically included on the list of Approved Designated Services; and how many emergency services of regional significance were included on the list of Approved Designated Services on 29 November 2022.

Emergency services of regional significance are automatically included on the list of Approved Designated Services as set out in section 5.2 of the Electricity Supply Emergency Code. Emergency services that want to apply for the Protected Sites List must also meet the additional criteria set out in section 5.3 of the Electricity Supply Emergency Code.

There are fourteen Approved Designated Services listed in section 5.2 of the Electricity Supply Emergency Code, one of which is titled Emergency Services of regional significance.