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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many households that do not receive a means tested benefits are eligible for the Warm Homes Discount; and how many households who receive a non-means tested disability benefit are eligible for that scheme.

Until now, the Government has set mandatory Warm Home Discount Broader Group eligibility criteria based on the receipt of a means-tested benefit. However, most energy suppliers expanded their eligibility criteria, subject to approval by Ofgem. It is at the discretion of each energy supplier to determine which households receive the rebate, therefore the Government does not have data on the total number of households who would have been eligible for Broader Group rebates.

From this winter, in England and Wales, the Government will replace the Broader Group with a new Core Group 2.