Draft Energy-Intensive Industry Electricity Support Payments and Levy (Amendment) Regulations 2026 Debate
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Edward Argar
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Draft Energy-Intensive Industry Electricity Support Payments and Levy (Amendment) Regulations 2026
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Edward Argar (Melton and Syston) (Con)
I will be very brief. I will not reiterate what has been set out so eloquently by my hon. Friend the Member for Mid Buckinghamshire, the shadow Minister, nor will I reiterate what the hon. Member for Stoke-on-Trent Central set out. They both illustrated, as did the hon. Member for South Cambridgeshire, why the intention behind the draft regulations is to be welcomed. It is the right thing to do, but there is a considerable amount of complexity involved in how it will play out over time.
The one point that I make to the Minister is about paragraph 47 of the impact assessment. The third bullet point refers to the need for the policy to be
“reviewed at an appropriate juncture”.
That is sensible, but can he set out what an appropriate juncture would look like?