Non-domestic Energy Support Debate

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Department: HM Treasury

Non-domestic Energy Support

Darren Jones Excerpts
Monday 9th January 2023

(1 year, 4 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Roger Gale Portrait Mr Deputy Speaker (Sir Roger Gale)
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I call the Chair of the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee.

Darren Jones Portrait Darren Jones (Bristol North West) (Lab)
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We know from the design of the domestic scheme that people in particular circumstances are not being helped as the Government perhaps intended. Will the Minister therefore confirm that the Government will tweak the design of this policy in the same way that they did the domestic scheme where there are legitimate cases of businesses not being helped as Ministers intended?

James Cartlidge Portrait James Cartlidge
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It is a good question. Obviously, there are quite a few of those categories. As the hon. Gentleman is the Chair of the Select Committee, I am happy to engage with him—I think we will be speaking later, if not tomorrow—and to go through some of those categories. There are some important examples, but I can certainly confirm that where those exceptions arise, we will look to see what we can do to provide assistance.