To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Energy Bill Discount Scheme, whether it is his policy that the benefits of the discount be passed onto tenants who have bills paid with their tenancy arrangement; whether a tenant who has not received a rebate will have to pay the additional £40 per annum charge in the case that a tenant has moved into a property following the application of the rebate; and in what way his Department will help ensure that renters who split and pay utility bills separately but occupy the same property will be treated equitably under the Scheme, including where tenants move into another property during the course of five years of the rebate.
Answered on
4 April 2022
All domestic electricity customers in Great Britain will receive a £200 reduction in their electricity costs from this October through the Energy Bills Support Scheme (EBSS). Third parties such as landlords should pass on the £200 reduction to the end users. The Government will recoup the costs of the EBSS in full from domestic energy bills over five years from 2022-23.
The Government will explore these issues further through a public consultation run by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy in the spring.