Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Tuesday 4th September 2018 Ministerial Corrections

Draft Warm Home Discount (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2018

The following is an extract from First Delegated Legislation Committee on Draft Warm Home Discount (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2018 on 9 July 2018.

[Claire Perry]

The regulations we are debating today introduce a key change to the scheme. I have decided that more energy suppliers should be required to offer the warm home discount to customers so that from winter 2019 about 99% of the domestic market will be covered by obligated suppliers. [Official Report, First Delegated Legislation Committee, 9 July 2018, c. 4.]

Letter of correction from Claire Perry:

An error has been identified in my speech in the First Delegated Legislation Committee on 9 July 2018.

The correct response should have been:

[Claire Perry]

The regulations we are debating today introduce a key change to the scheme. I have decided that more energy suppliers should be required to offer the warm home discount to customers so that from winter 2020 about 99% of the domestic market will be covered by obligated suppliers.