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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what recent progress he has made to simplify the number of tariffs offered by energy companies.

The Competition and Markets Authority recommended in their 2016 report that Ofgem remove the simpler tariff rules. These rules banned suppliers from offering complex tariffs and capped the number of tariffs which they could offer. Ofgem have now introduced new rules governing the information about tariffs which suppliers can give to their domestic customers in their sales and marketing activities, including a requirement that they should be easily comparable. Government supports this approach.