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 12 July 2017 to Question 3324, on energy: small businesses, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of the proposal by the Competition and Markets Authority to help microbusinesses access better energy deals.

Some of the reforms recommended by the Competition Markets Authority’s investigation, such as increasing price transparency for smaller microbusinesses and improving prompts to engage should make a real difference to the way the market works.

Ofgem has announced plans to consult on further measures to help microbusinesses.