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Energy: Price Caps

Question for Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

UIN HL1512, tabled on 5 July 2022

To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to introduce a relative price cap on energy bills.

Answered on

19 July 2022

The current price cap on domestic default tariffs is an absolute cap, as this is the best way to ensure that households are protected from the effects of the loyalty penalty. The level of the price cap is set by Ofgem.

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Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy