Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps his Department is planning to take to help prevent further increases in household energy costs prior to winter 2022-23.
Gas prices are expected to stay high in the short term, driven by increased global factors.
The Government is engaging at an international level and with industry to monitor and share information on market developments that are impacting gas prices globally. Nevertheless, the Government has policies in place to protect vulnerable consumers from the impact of high energy prices and has introduced the Energy Bills Support Scheme to cushion domestic energy consumers from the worst impacts.