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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will publish evidence of the merits of (a) an absolute and (b) a relative price cap for gas and electricity consumers on standard variable tariffs.

The Government has published a draft Bill for a temporary cap on domestic standard variable and default energy tariffs. The impact assessment that accompanies the draft Bill includes analysis of the merits of a relative and absolute price cap.