Leisure: Energy

(asked on 19th January 2023) - View Source

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he plans to provide further support towards energy costs for the public leisure sector in addition to the Energy Bill Discount Scheme.


Answered by
James Cartlidge Portrait
James Cartlidge
Minister of State (Ministry of Defence)
This question was answered on 24th January 2023

The new Energy Bills Discount Scheme will provide all eligible businesses and other non-domestic energy users across the UK, including the public leisure sector, with a discount on high energy bills until 31 March 2024, following the end of the current Energy Bill Relief Scheme. It will also provide businesses in sectors with particularly high levels of both energy use and trade intensity with a higher level of support.

Through the current Energy Bills Relief Scheme, the Government provided an unprecedented package of support for non-domestic users through this winter. The Government has been clear that such levels of support, unprecedented in its nature and huge scale, were time-limited and intended as a bridge to allow businesses to adapt.

The new scheme therefore strikes a balance between supporting businesses for a further 12 months, from April 2023 to March 2024, and limiting taxpayer’s exposure to volatile energy markets.

This will help those locked into contracts signed before recent substantial falls in the wholesale price manage their costs and provide others with reassurance against the risk of prices rising again.

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