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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether he plans to provide extra financial resource to Local Authorities to help them to administer the Energy Bills Support Scheme Alternative Funding model announced on 21 October 2022.

The Government will support Local Authorities as much as possible in delivering the funding, and work closely with them to ensure that appropriate new burdens funding is provided alongside the grants to support people in their areas.