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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department is taking steps to help ensure that residents of a property that uses combined domestic and commercial energy supplies under a business tariff will receive energy bill support for the domestic element of their energy use.

Where a commercial contract is used to provide energy in a building that is also used for residential use, support under the Energy Bill Relief Scheme (EBRS) applies to all energy use in the property. EBRS provides a discount on the wholesale portion of the unit price for gas and electricity to ensure that eligible businesses and other non-domestic customers are protected from excessively high energy bills over the winter period. This support under the EBRS is comparable to the wholesale element of the Energy Price Guarantee for households.