Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, if he will make additional funds available to allow the Northern Ireland Executive to extend the Warm Home Discount Scheme to Northern Ireland; what recent steps he has taken to encourage the setting up of the Warm Home Discount Scheme in Northern Ireland; and if he will make a statement.

The Warm Home Discount is an obligation on energy suppliers operating in the GB-wide market for domestic customers.

The scheme does not apply in Northern Ireland as fuel poverty is devolved to the Northern Ireland Executive, which decides its own fuel poverty objectives and policies.