Energy Secretary response to energy price cap

Energy Secretary Miatta Fahnbulleh said: 

Families will be understandably concerned about the cost of energy bills this winter, which is being driven up by the Iran War.  

Energy is an everyday essential and it needs to be affordable for everyone, which is why we have cut VAT on electricity bills from October, to give families some breathing space.  

This has limited the rise in the price cap and follows the £150 in costs we removed from bills earlier this year, and we will keep looking at what more we can do to protect families from unaffordable bills. 

Background:  

• We have expanded the £150 Warm Home Discount to around six million households and extended the scheme for the rest of the decade.    

• Our Warm Homes Plan, the biggest home upgrade plan in British history, will reduce energy use, lower bills for millions of households and help lift households out of fuel poverty.