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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will take steps to help protect leaseholders of shared ownership properties who face high energy price increases where developers have enrolled those leaseholders in Community Energy Partnerships which are not regulated by Ofgem and not protected by the Government's energy price cap.

The Default Tariff Act requires Ofgem, as the gas and electricity markets regulator, to put licence conditions in place for a cap on domestic default gas and electricity tariffs. District or communal heating systems typically buy their energy through commercial contracts which are not covered by the Act.