Written Question·Department for Business and Trade·UIN 36726

Energy Intensive Industries: Ceramics

Tabled: 10 March 2025
Answered: 13 March 2025
Named Day

Question

Gareth Snell

Labour (Co-op)Stoke-on-Trent Central

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of opening the Energy Intensive Industry Exemption scheme to all ceramics manufacturers.

Answer

Sarah Jones
Eligibility for relief through the British Energy Supercharger scheme is based on an assessment of the electricity and trade intensity of an individual sector and how exposed it is to the risk of carbon leakage. The list of eligible sectors is set out in ...

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