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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps his Department is taking with Cabinet colleagues to help ensure that care (a) providers and (b) recipients will be protected from energy blackouts in winter 2022; and if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of including care providers in the list of protected sites in the (i) Electricity Supply Emergency Code and (ii) other relevant Government documents.

Power cuts are highly unlikely. The Government has developed plans to protect households and businesses in a full range of scenarios this winter, despite the impact of Russia’s illegal war in Ukraine.

Sites that meet the criteria set out in the Electricity Supply Emergency Code https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/electricity-supply-emergency-code can apply directly through their Distribution Network Operator (or Transmission Network Operator if they connect to that directly) to be on the Protected Sites List.