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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if his Department will take steps to help ensure that energy companies are offering flexible and affordable tariffs for elderly customers.

The setting of energy tariffs is a commercial matter for individual supply companies.

The Government continues to support low income and fuel poor households with their energy bills through the Warm Home Discount which provides eligible households with a £140 discount. Further, Winter Fuel Payments which are explicitly for the elderly, and Cold Weather Payments, ensure that the most vulnerable are better able to heat their homes over the colder months.