Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps his Department has taken to ensure that the support provided to households to cover increased energy costs has taken into account the regional variations in the energy price cap.

Ofgem’s licence conditions require that energy charges are cost-reflective in the price cap. As it costs more to distribute energy to some regions than others, there are regional variations in charging to reflect higher costs to serve.

The Energy Price Guarantee applies a fixed discount to tariffs, so these small differences continue to exist.