Cooker socket above cooker

I inherited my dad's house 2 yrs ago and I am finally going to replace the gas cooker. I have noticed there is an old cooker socket in the middle behind the gas cooker, I will be replacing the cooker with a built in grill below the hobs not on top.

Will this socket be a problem and would the gas engineer still be able to install the new cooker?

Any advice is much appreciated.

Thanks
Aaron