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Energy Bills Discount Scheme: Leisure Centres and Swimming Pools

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Question for Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

UIN 120195, tabled on 10 January 2023

Question

Munira Wilson
Liberal Democrat
Twickenham
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will review the list of Energy and Trade Intensive Industries eligible for increased support under the Energy Bills Discount Scheme to include swimming pools and leisure centres.

Answer

Graham Stuart
Conservative
Beverley and Holderness
Commons

Answered on

16 January 2023

There are currently no plans to review the list of Energy and Trade Intensive Industries eligible for support under the Energy Bill Discount Scheme. The Government has taken a consistent approach to identifying the most energy and trade intensive sectors, with all sectors that meet agreed thresholds for energy and trade intensity eligible for Energy and Trade Intensive Industries support. These thresholds have been set at sectors falling above the 80th percentile for energy intensity and 60th percentile for trade intensity, plus any sectors eligible for the existing energy compensation and exemption schemes.

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