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 is taking to ensure that Alternative Fuel Payments are reaching customers and are not held back by electricity companies.

The former Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy published a Direction signed by the then Minister of State for Energy and Climate which legally requires that domestic electricity suppliers provide an Alternative Fuel Payment to all their eligible customers, and electricity suppliers had until the end of February to do this.