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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, National Grid's announcement of 6 October 2022 that the UK may experience power cuts lasting three hours per day during winter 2022, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of creating a compensation scheme for businesses to reimburse them for lost earnings in the context of Government contingency planning for energy security in winter 2022-23.

The Government is confident in its plans to protect households and businesses in the full range of scenarios this winter, in light of Russia’s illegal war in Ukraine. Widespread power cuts are unlikely, and the Government has not established a compensation scheme.