Oral Question·Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
“If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities.”
Tabled: 9 July 2025Answered: 15 July 2025
Asked by
Melanie Onn
Labour — Great Grimsby and Cleethorpes
Answering Minister
the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero
Answer from Hansard
Michael Shanks
I will repeat what I have said before: we are obviously hugely disappointed by the way that the owners have dealt with the company. I repeat the ask that I have made in the House a number of times, and in writing to the chief executive, that he should put his hands in his pockets and do the right thing by the workforce. We are doing everything we can as part of the insolvency process safely to manage the refinery, and to look at whether there are buyers interested in taking it on.