Energy Intensive Industries: Government Assistance

(asked on 10th February 2026) - View Source

Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:

To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to lower electricity prices in the UK following the uplift of the Network Charging Compensation Scheme.


Answered by
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Lord Whitehead
Minister of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
This question was answered on 24th February 2026

In February the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero published a response to consultations on proposals to amend the inflation indexation of the Renewables Obligation and Feed-in Tariff schemes. Lowering levy costs through reforms such as these forms part of the work that government is doing to bear down on costs across the energy system to ensure that consumers do not see a net increase in their electricity bills as a result of this measure. More widely, at the last Budget government took an average of £150 of costs off household energy bills from this coming April.

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