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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he is taking to ensure that people in receipt of (a) Personal Independence Payment and (b) Higher Rate Mobility Payment also benefit from the Warm Home Discount at their residential address irrespective of whether their name appears on the energy provider's bill and electronic records.

Households in receipt of means-tested benefits with high energy costs based on certain characteristics of their property are eligible for the rebate. As a result of expanding and reforming the scheme 160,000 more households where a person has a disability or long-term illness will receive a rebate.

The Government’s data matching with energy suppliers enables most eligible households to receive their rebates automatically. To be eligible, a person, their partner or their DWP Appointee must be named on the electricity bill or account of a participating supplier on the qualifying date.