Barry challenged the business secretary Jacob Rees-Mogg in the House of Commons on the government’s six-month cap on the unit price of gas and electricity for businesses and how the government would pay for it in the long term.
Barry asked: “Given that the domestic rate cap is to be based on a loan, to be paid out of future bills, if the business scheme is the same, why would businesses not regard this as a tax rise deferred?”
“If not, is the business secretary really expecting it to be repaid out of general taxation by the rest of the taxpayers?”
Plans to help businesses, schools and other organisations with spiralling energy costs this winter have been announced.
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