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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment his Department has made of the impact of rising energy prices on energy-intensive industries.

In the UK Energy Security Strategy, the Government announced that the Energy Intensive Industry (EII) Compensation Scheme will be extended for a further 3 years to protect manufacturing sectors from high electricity costs. The Government is also more than doubling the current budget for the EII Compensation Scheme to support Energy Intensive Industries.