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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether people that pay for their energy through their landlord using a coin meter will be eligible for Energy Bills Support Scheme Alternative Funding.

If a landlord procures their energy via a commercial contract, the resident may be eligible for the Energy Bills Support Scheme Alternative Funding (EBSS AF). To receive this, the resident will need to submit a short online form via the Government’s GOV.UK pages, with the application portal currently scheduled to open on or by 27th February. A dedicated helpline will be available for those applicants without online access. However, a landlord who has received the EBSS automatically via a domestic meter, must ensure that they are passing this support on in a just and reasonable way to the bill payer of the property.