Commons Chamber
Hospice Funding - Mon 22 Apr 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Paulette Hamilton (Lab - Birmingham, Erdington) Rooms should be warm, and directors of hospices should be thinking about how they can support as many - Speech Link
2: Edward Timpson (Con - Eddisbury) since then, the discount scheme until March this year. - Speech Link
3: Chris Loder (Con - West Dorset) the Minister set out the wider financial support available to hospices, including the energy bills discount - Speech Link
4: Steve Double (Con - St Austell and Newquay) Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker—it is becoming a bit of a habit for me to be the warm-up act for the - Speech Link
5: Patrick Grady (SNP - Glasgow North) expect a decent competitive salary that allows them to ensure that their own households are safe and warm - Speech Link

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Select Committee

Second Special Report - Cost of living: impact on rural communities in Scotland: Government Response to the Committee’s First Report of Session 2023–24

Special Report Apr. 18 2024

Committee: Scottish Affairs Committee (Department: Scotland Office)

Found: receiving energy commercially through an intermediary, for example, individuals living: a) in a park home

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Commons Chamber
Finance (No. 2) Bill
2nd reading - Wed 17 Apr 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: James Murray (LAB - Ealing North) Alongside an unnecessary discount in year 1, there is a loophole that appears to have been intentionally - Speech Link
2: Drew Hendry (SNP - Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey) electricity standing charge for households— the charge that has to be paid every single day, cold or warm—is - Speech Link
3: Sarah Olney (LD - Richmond Park) That revenue could be used to fund energy support for the most vulnerable—to double the warm home discount - Speech Link
4: Tulip Siddiq (Lab - Hampstead and Kilburn) to scrap the non-dom status, but there are still some gaping loopholes in the Government’s plans.The discount - Speech Link

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Departmental Publication (Policy and Engagement)
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Apr. 05 2024

Source Page: Domestic consumers with non-domestic energy supply contracts: call for evidence
Document: Domestic consumers with non-domestic energy supply contracts: a call for evidence (PDF)

Found: you are supplied or requiring to be supplied with gas or electricity at a domestic premise (e.g. your home

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Departmental Publication (Policy and Engagement)
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Apr. 05 2024

Source Page: Domestic consumers with non-domestic energy supply contracts: call for evidence
Document: Domestic consumers on non-domestic energy contracts: summary of responses (PDF)

Found: The Energy Bills Discount Scheme (EBDS) provides all businesses and non- domestic energy users with

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Written Question

Warm Home Discount Scheme

Friday 22nd March 2024

Asked by: Kenny MacAskill (Alba Party - East Lothian)

Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, pursuant to the Answer of 18 March 2024 to Question 17957 on Warm Home Discount Scheme, what steps she is able to take to ensure that the regional electricity areas with the highest levels of fuel poverty are adequately financially supported, in the context of no data being collated centrally on the number of households receiving Warm Home Discounts by regional electricity area.

Answered by Amanda Solloway - Government Whip, Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury

The Warm Home Discount scheme is targeted to low-income households at risk of fuel poverty, providing a £150 rebate to eligible households. In England and Wales, the government sets the eligibility criteria and identifies households through data matching. In Scotland, the government identifies eligible low-income pensioners through data matching, meanwhile other low-income households in Scotland must apply to their energy supplier who can set their own criteria, subject to approval by Ofgem.

The government published official statistics for winter 2022/23 last year which showed, that across England, the distribution of rebates across regions is roughly consistent with the fuel poverty statistics for rates of fuel poverty. The government does not produce equivalent statistics for Scotland as fuel poverty is devolved and measured differently.

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Departmental Publication (Statistics)
Department for Work and Pensions

Mar. 21 2024

Source Page: Cost of Living Support – impact on Households Below Average Income FYE 2023 low-income statistics
Document: Cost of Living Support: Impact on Households Below Average Income FYE 2023 low-income statistics (PDF)

Found: As each support scheme came with clear eligibility guidelines, receipt of the payments was imputed

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Departmental Publication (Statistics)
Department for Work and Pensions

Mar. 21 2024

Source Page: Pensioners' Incomes: financial years ending 1995 to 2023
Document: (ODS)

Found: Employees may become a member of an employer's pension scheme on a voluntary basis; - Personal pension

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