Question follow-through · 65946
Electricity: Prices
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether his Department has undertaken economic modelling on the potential impact of sustained high industrial electricity prices on the competitiveness of the manufacturing sector until 2035.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 8 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 10 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 14 Jul 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
8 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether his Department has undertaken economic modelling on the potential impact of sustained high industrial electricity prices on the competitiveness of the manufacturing sector until 2035.
10 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
14 Jul 2025
Answer published
Competitiveness depends on a wide range of factors. The Government recognises that high industrial electricity costs negatively impact the competitiveness in UK manufacturing, in line with the academic literature.The Government announced the British Indus...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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