Question follow-through · 2927
Energy: Small Businesses
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of enabling small businesses to renegotiate and exit fixed-term commercial energy contracts agreed during periods of peak wholesale p
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- Answering body
- Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
- Tabled
- 19 May 2026
- Target answer date
- 21 May 2026
- Answer
- 28 May 2026 · 9 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Recorded timeline
19 May 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of enabling small businesses to renegotiate and exit fixed-term commercial energy contracts agreed during periods of peak wholesale p
21 May 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
28 May 2026
Answer published
The Government’s primary focus is on ensuring energy is affordable for all businesses, and that they are provided better protection from being locked into unfair and expensive energy contracts. That’s why the Government plans to directly regulate Third-Pa...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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