Energy: Billing

(asked on 16th June 2022) - View Source

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 13 June 2022 to Question 9868 on Energy: Billing, if he will make it his policy to revise the supplier licence conditions to ensure that people who pay for their energy by (a) a pre-payment meter and (b) cash or cheque do not pay more for their energy as a consequence of their payment method.


Answered by
Greg Hands Portrait
Greg Hands
Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade)
This question was answered on 24th June 2022

The Government has no plans to revise licence conditions. Supplier licence conditions, enforced by the independent regulator Ofgem, state that the differences in price between payment methods for energy, including by prepayment meter, must reflect the cost to the supplier of that payment method. The energy price cap protects prepayment meter customers and ensures they pay a fair price for their energy.

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