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Financial Assistance to Industry

Delegated Legislation – in the House of Commons at 5:19 pm on 8 December 2020.

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  • Division number 181
    A majority of MPs voted to authorise payments to industrial companies to compensate them for indirect costs of the UK Emissions Trading System or the Carbon Emissions Tax and Carbon Price Support mechanism.

That this House authorises the Secretary of State to undertake to pay, and to pay by way of financial assistance under section 8 of the Industrial Development Act 1982, sums exceeding £30 million and up to a total of £300 million in respect of compensation for indirect costs of the UK Emissions Trading System or the Carbon Emissions Tax and Carbon Price Support mechanism in each case to British Steel Ltd; Celsa Manufacturing (UK) Ltd; CF Fertilisers UK Ltd; DS Smith Paper Ltd; INEOS Chemical Grangemouth Ltd; INEOS ChlorVinyls Ltd; Kimberly Clark Ltd; Outokumpu Stainless Ltd; Palm Paper Ltd; Runcorn MCP Ltd; SABIC UK Petrochemicals Ltd; Tata Steel UK Ltd; and UPM-Kymmene (UK) Ltd.—(Rebecca Harris.)

Division number 181 Financial Assistance to Industry — Authorisation of Payments To Compensate for Indirect Costs of the UK Emissions Trading System or the Carbon Emissions Tax and Carbon Price Support Mechanism

A majority of MPs voted to authorise payments to industrial companies to compensate them for indirect costs of the UK Emissions Trading System or the Carbon Emissions Tax and Carbon Price Support mechanism.

Aye: 360 MPs

No: 16 MPs

Aye: A-Z by last name

Tellers

No: A-Z by last name

Tellers

Absent: 270 MPs

Absent: A-Z by last name

The House divided: Ayes 360, Noes 16.

Question accordingly agreed to.

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