Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department holds information on the proportion of energy customers on standard variable tariffs who are also in receipt of the winter fuel payment for each of the last seven years.

The Department does not hold data on the tariffs paid by those in receipt of winter fuel payments. The Department estimates the proportions of all customers who are on variable tariffs, in the table below; data prior to 2013 is not available.

Data are published in Quarterly Energy Prices in tables, 2.4.2 and 2.5.2 at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/quarterly-domestic-energy-price-stastics