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Shockat Adam Excerpts

Tuesday 2nd June 2026 Commons Chamber

[Olly Glover (Didcot and Wantage) (LD)]

7. What steps he is taking to help reduce household energy bills.

[Shockat Adam (Leicester South) (Ind)]

8. What recent steps he has taken to help reduce energy bills for households.

[Mr Gagan Mohindra (South West Hertfordshire) (Con)]

11. What steps his Department is taking to help reduce household energy bills.

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[Martin McCluskey]

The hon. Member makes an important point. The Government do not want anyone to be making the choice between heating and eating. That is why across Government we are working on a data sprint to work out how we can use household income date to ensure that we are targeting support at the right people.

[Shockat Adam]

The typical annual dual fuel bill is 40% higher today in real terms than it was in 2021. After accounting for inflation, that means it is £511 more per household. The bad news does not stop there, with Ofgem announcing that the crisis is going to get worse, with a 13% increase to the energy price cap. My constituents in Leicester South were already suffering. Labour promised to fix that, but the cost of living is just getting worse. The Minister says that the only way to protect our country is through clean, home-grown power, so what is he doing to decouple the bills from gas prices and when will my constituents feel that?

[Martin McCluskey]

The hon. Gentleman’s constituents in Leicester will benefit from the decisions that we have already made. Those decisions take £150 off energy costs and extend the warm home discount and the warm homes plan, providing £15 billion of support. We are delinking and we are already taking action, as the Secretary of State announced last month. Ofgem has pointed out that although last week wholesale gas prices at the price cap went up by 24%, electricity went up by 5%. As it said:

“This reflects the increase in the amount of renewable generation on the system and therefore reduced reliance on gas”.