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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to page 78 of the background document to the Queen's Speech 2017, published on 21 June 2016, how his Department will extend price protection for those on the poorest value tariffs; and if he will make a statement.

The Government is committed to extending price protection currently in place for some vulnerable customers to more customers on the poorest value tariffs.

My Rt Hon Friend the Secretary of State has written to the Chief Executive Officer of Ofgem to ask for advice on what action the regulator might take to safeguard customers on these tariffs. This Department will consider how to proceed in light of his response.