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British Industrial Competitiveness Scheme

Asked by Blake StephensonConservativeDepartment for Business and TradeTabled Answered 27 October 2025UIN 84538

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to the press release entitled Powering Britain's future: Electricity bills to be slashed for over 7,000 businesses in major industry shake-up, published on 22 June 2025, what estimate he

Answered by Chris McDonald

As stated in the Modern Industrial Strategy, we intend to fund the British Industrial Competitiveness Scheme by bearing down on levies and other costs in the energy system.

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