Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what financial support his Department has made available to manufacturing industries to manage energy costs.
BEIS currently provides compensation to Energy Intensive Industries (EIIs) including steel, paper and chemicals for the indirect costs of the Small-Scale Feed-In-Tariff (FIT), European Union Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) and Carbon Price Support Mechanism (CPS) which electricity suppliers pass on to businesses. We have provided over £820 million since 2013.