Companies will receive support to help with higher energy bills, but the Government is unable to provide details and the scheme may not be functioning until November.
The unspecified support will begin from October, with payments backdated if necessary.
Yesterday the prime minister’s spokesperson said: ‘What we have said at this point is that we will look to give equivalent support to what we have done with households and there’ll be a bit more detail on that next week.’
The government has promised that companies will get ‘equivalent support’ to what is available for households, but has yet to clarify what that means. Asked if that meant an equivalent saving in cash terms, or an equivalent saving as a proportion of the increase proposed, the spokesperson was unable to answer, saying he could not set out the details of the scheme at this point.
