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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many times per year and in what format customers of (a) British Gas, (b) EDF, (c) EON, (d) nPower, (e) Scottish Power and (f) SSE who are on standard variable tariffs receive Supplier Cheapest Tariff information.

Ofgem’s regulations state that energy suppliers must provide information on any alternative cheaper tariffs that they offer, on the front page of every customers’ energy bills and annual statements and on notification of increase in charges.