Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what progress her Department has made on a consultation on (a) introducing a statutory fuel finder scheme and (b) establishing a statutory monitoring body for fuel retailers.

The Government announced on 15 November that the Competition & Markets Authority (CMA) would undertake the ongoing road fuels price monitoring function. The Digital Markets, Competition & Consumers (DMCC) Bill was amended at Commons Report stage to give the CMA information-gathering powers for the monitoring function.

We are due to launch our consultation on the design of the statutory open data scheme and aspects of the monitoring function not outlined in the DMCC Bill shortly.