Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, if she will make the Warm Home Discount available to social housing tenants who purchase energy through collective schemes provided by a housing association and do not receive individual bills directly from the power provider.

The Warm Home Discount scheme is established in regulations until March 2016. This is a major scheme that costs more than £300 million per year and reaches some 2 million households per year. In order to be delivered successfully, the scheme requires simple and clear rules. These include a basic requirement for customers to be named on an electricity account held with a participating supplier.