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To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of requiring electricity resellers on park home sites to itemise (a) standing charges and (b) unit rates separately when billing residents.
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of requiring electricity resellers on park home sites to itemise (a) standing charges and (b) unit rates separately when billing residents.
The Government is very clear that resellers such as landlords should not profit from reselling energy to consumers. The maximum price at which gas or electricity can be resold to domestic consumers is the same price that the reseller (such as the park home site operator) paid for it, including standing charges. This Maximum Resale Pricing (MRP) provides transparency and protections for consumers and is a matter for Ofgem as the independent regulator.
Currently, consumers who suspect that MRP has been breached can request evidence from landlords, review bills and contracts and, if necessary, pursue disputes through tribunals or civil courts.
However, Ofgem realise that enforcement mechanisms are failing to protect some consumers. Ofgem’s current review of the MRP sought views on fair pricing and consumer protection, with a policy consultation planned for Summer 2026.
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what recent assessment his Department has made of the cost of energy bills in Harpenden and Berkhamsted.
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what recent assessment his Department has made of the cost of energy bills in Harpenden and Berkhamsted.
No specific assessment has been made for Harpenden and Berkhamsted.
Tackling affordability is this government’s number one priority, and we are taking action. Our decisions at last year’s Budget took an average of £150 of costs off of energy bills. Decisions are now factored into bills for the years to come and mean the rise in the energy price cap from 1st July is significantly lower than it would have been. In addition, the £150 Warm Home Discount has been expanded to cover around 6 million households across Great Britain.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she will be consulting on the design of the energy bill levy framework.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she will be consulting on the design of the energy bill levy framework.
As announced at Autumn Budget 2025, the government is committed to introducing a new framework to subject levies to enhanced scrutiny and ensure they are affordable, value for money and do not impose unnecessary costs on households and businesses. The government will provide an update on the framework alongside the next fiscal event.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, when the energy bill levy framework will be introduced.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, when the energy bill levy framework will be introduced.
As announced at Autumn Budget 2025, the government is committed to introducing a new framework to subject levies to enhanced scrutiny and ensure they are affordable, value for money and do not impose unnecessary costs on households and businesses. The government will provide an update on the framework alongside the next fiscal event.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she plans to introduce the energy bill levy framework announced in the Autumn Budget 2025.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she plans to introduce the energy bill levy framework announced in the Autumn Budget 2025.
As announced at Autumn Budget 2025, the government is committed to introducing a new framework to subject levies to enhanced scrutiny and ensure they are affordable, value for money and do not impose unnecessary costs on households and businesses. The government will provide an update on the framework alongside the next fiscal event.
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the economic benefits of moving levies from electricity bills to general taxation for both domestic and non-domestic consumers.
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the economic benefits of moving levies from electricity bills to general taxation for both domestic and non-domestic consumers.
At last year’s Budget, the Chancellor took the decision to fund 75% of the domestic share of the Renewables Obligation through the Exchequer and ended the levy-funded Energy Company Obligation. These decisions took on average £150 of costs off household energy bills and are forecast to reduce inflation by over 0.2 percentage points in 2026/27.
The Government’s fiscal plans – which factor in the impacts of the Chancellor’s decisions on levies – are bringing down borrowing and debt, keeping the public finances on a sustainable path and supporting the Bank of England to keep inflation as low as possible. According to the IMF, between 2025-2030, the UK will be reducing borrowing more than any other G7 country.
The Government keeps all taxes under review and is introducing a new framework to subject levies to enhanced scrutiny and ensure they are affordable, value for money and do not impose unnecessary costs.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to HM Treasury’s press release entitled Chancellor commits to new anti-profiteering powers and fights back on rising bills, published on 20 May 2026, what safeguards will be in place to help ensure that legitimate price increases caused by...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to HM Treasury’s press release entitled Chancellor commits to new anti-profiteering powers and fights back on rising bills, published on 20 May 2026, what safeguards will be in place to help ensure that legitimate price increases caused by...
Bearing down on the cost of living is a priority for the government, including addressing the impact of the Iran conflict. My officials are rapidly developing legislation to grant the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), and potentially other regulators, powers to require companies to provide information where a crisis is disrupting UK markets for essential goods and services. Markets like food, fuel and medicine will be in scope, as well as markets rendered essential by the particular crisis, like hand sanitiser during the pandemic. The powers will allow government to rapidly understand and respond to crises and – in appropriate cases – publish information about markets so consumers can choose where to spend their money.
We are developing these powers alongside the CMA and other regulators. We will design them so that, as far as possible, they protect business from unnecessary burdens and are only used when absolutely necessary. We will publish information on estimated impacts in due course.
The government is not prohibiting certain levels of pricing or profit. I would like to thank the businesses across the economy that have fought to keep their pricing as low as possible in extremely difficult circumstances, and the government believes competitive markets are the best mechanism for driving down prices. But the Chancellor has been clear that if examples of egregious exploitation of this crisis are exposed, the government will not hesitate to act.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to HM Treasury’s press release entitled Chancellor commits to new anti-profiteering powers and fights back on rising bills, published on 20 May 2026, what criteria will be used to determine whether price increases are deemed unjustified profiteering.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to HM Treasury’s press release entitled Chancellor commits to new anti-profiteering powers and fights back on rising bills, published on 20 May 2026, what criteria will be used to determine whether price increases are deemed unjustified profiteering.
Bearing down on the cost of living is a priority for the government, including addressing the impact of the Iran conflict. My officials are rapidly developing legislation to grant the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), and potentially other regulators, powers to require companies to provide information where a crisis is disrupting UK markets for essential goods and services. Markets like food, fuel and medicine will be in scope, as well as markets rendered essential by the particular crisis, like hand sanitiser during the pandemic. The powers will allow government to rapidly understand and respond to crises and – in appropriate cases – publish information about markets so consumers can choose where to spend their money.
We are developing these powers alongside the CMA and other regulators. We will design them so that, as far as possible, they protect business from unnecessary burdens and are only used when absolutely necessary. We will publish information on estimated impacts in due course.
The government is not prohibiting certain levels of pricing or profit. I would like to thank the businesses across the economy that have fought to keep their pricing as low as possible in extremely difficult circumstances, and the government believes competitive markets are the best mechanism for driving down prices. But the Chancellor has been clear that if examples of egregious exploitation of this crisis are exposed, the government will not hesitate to act.
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of permanently moving social and environmental levies from electricity bills into general taxation on (a) average household energy bills and (b) levels of fuel poverty.
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of permanently moving social and environmental levies from electricity bills into general taxation on (a) average household energy bills and (b) levels of fuel poverty.
At the Autumn Budget, HMG took £150 of costs off energy bills, partially achieved through moving 75% of the cost of the domestic Renewables Obligation (RO) to the Exchequer. This arrangement will continue for the next 3 years. The transfer of these RO costs to public expenditure is a significant step towards rebalancing levies away from electricity: cheaper electricity is the cornerstone of the low-carbon economy that we are building through our Clean Energy mission. We will continue to explore ways to both lower energy bills for consumers including the fuel poor, and reduce barriers for consumers to adopt clean technologies.
Household electricity bills are made up of wholesale, network, policy and supplier costs. What are they, and how they are changing?
Household electricity bills are made up of wholesale, network, policy and supplier costs. What are they, and how they are changing?
To go back to heating oil, 20% of households in my South Cotswolds constituency rely on heating oil—that figure is four times the national average—and many of them face high up-front costs. Will the Secretary of State consider supporting more flexible payment or credit schemes, and pooled purchasing models, which would enable villages to combine orders, secure bulk discounts and spread costs over time?
To go back to heating oil, 20% of households in my South Cotswolds constituency rely on heating oil—that figure is four times the national average—and many of them face high up-front costs. Will the Secretary of State consider supporting more flexible payment or credit schemes, and pooled purchasing models, which would enable villages to combine orders, secure bulk discounts and spread costs over time?
The hon. Lady raises an important issue, and I am sure that many Members will empathise as our constituents face difficult times. The Under-Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, my hon. Friend the Member for Inverclyde and Renfrewshire West (Martin McCluskey), tells me that the Competition and Markets Authority is considering all those issues. If Members encounter practices relating to heating and other things, they should bring them to the attention of my hon. Friend, because we want to work as speedily as possible with the CMA to stamp them out.
The hon. Lady raises an important issue, and I am sure that many Members will empathise as our constituents face difficult times. The Under-Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, my hon. Friend the Member for Inverclyde and Renfrewshire West (Martin McCluskey), tells me that the Competition and Markets Authority is considering all those issues. If Members encounter practices relating to heating and other things, they should bring them to the attention of my hon. Friend, because we want to work as speedily as possible with the CMA to stamp them out.
The hon. Lady raises an important issue, and I am sure that many Members will empathise as our constituents face difficult times. The Under-Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, my hon. Friend the Member for Inverclyde and Renfrewshire West (Martin McCluskey), tells me that the Competition and Markets Authority is considering all those issues. If Members encounter practices relating to heating and other things, they should bring them to the attention of my hon. Friend, because we want to work as speedily as possible with the CMA to stamp them out.
To go back to heating oil, 20% of households in my South Cotswolds constituency rely on heating oil—that figure is four times the national average—and many of them face high up-front costs. Will the Secretary of State consider supporting more flexible payment or credit schemes, and pooled purchasing models, which would enable villages to combine orders, secure bulk discounts and spread costs over time?
This Library briefing sets out financial and practical help for constituents with their domestic energy bills.
This Library briefing sets out financial and practical help for constituents with their domestic energy bills.
Statement on the publication of the fifth report of the Energy Security and Net Zero Committee, Tackling the cost of the energy crisis (HC 736).
Statement on the publication of the fifth report of the Energy Security and Net Zero Committee, Tackling the cost of the energy crisis (HC 736).
With permission, I will make a statement on the Government response, which was published yesterday, to the Energy Security and Net Zero Committee report, “Tackling the energy cost crisis”, which we published in October.
This issue is very much at the heart of what families up and down the country are...
With permission, I will make a statement on the Government response, which was published yesterday, to the Energy Security and Net Zero Committee report, “Tackling the energy cost crisis”, which we published in October.
This issue is very much at the heart of what families up and down the country are...
In their response to the report, the Government said that in the clean flexibility road map, they have committed
“to develop measures focussed on barriers to the participation of low-income and vulnerable consumers in using energy flexibly.”
Given what we heard yesterday about the importance of heat pumps and heat storage in...
In their response to the report, the Government said that in the clean flexibility road map, they have committed
“to develop measures focussed on barriers to the participation of low-income and vulnerable consumers in using energy flexibly.”
Given what we heard yesterday about the importance of heat pumps and heat storage in...
The hon. Lady is on to what we will report on in the second half of our inquiry; we took evidence along those lines in yesterday’s session. The House also heard yesterday from the Secretary of State, with the announcement of the warm homes plan, about the support that will...
The hon. Lady is on to what we will report on in the second half of our inquiry; we took evidence along those lines in yesterday’s session. The House also heard yesterday from the Secretary of State, with the announcement of the warm homes plan, about the support that will...
It is welcome that the Government agreed with the Select Committee that we should be more ambitious about smart meter roll-out, so that household customers can get the best tariffs for them. We also heard evidence that there was a lack of consumer confidence in smart meters. Does the Chair...
It is welcome that the Government agreed with the Select Committee that we should be more ambitious about smart meter roll-out, so that household customers can get the best tariffs for them. We also heard evidence that there was a lack of consumer confidence in smart meters. Does the Chair...