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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what discussions he has had with energy suppliers on how the Energy Bills Support Scheme can support tenants with mental health conditions, physical or learning disabilities in supported landlord schemes.

The Energy Prices Act includes provisions to require landlords and other intermediaries to pass energy price support provided by the Energy Price Guarantee, Energy Bills Support Scheme, or Energy Bill Relief Scheme as appropriate to end users who are the intended beneficiaries of the relevant schemes.

As a part of complying with the public sectors equalities duty, conversations with stakeholders included discussions on protected characteristics. These discussions fed into the public sector equality duty and to policy and delivery decisions.