Question follow-through · 122190
Natural Gas: Prices
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of the price of wholesale gas on the viability of energy intensive industries.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 19 Mar 2026
- Target answer date
- 23 Mar 2026
- Answer
- 26 Mar 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
19 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of the price of wholesale gas on the viability of energy intensive industries.
23 Mar 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
26 Mar 2026
Answer published
This Government is aware of the impact of gas costs on energy-intensive industries and that current energy support schemes only subsidise the cost of electricity for eligible electricity-intensive businesses. My officials regularly engage with trade assoc...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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