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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether he has made a comparative assessment of gas and electricity tariffs in Merseyside and the rest of the UK; and what steps his Department is taking to help people in areas of high deprivation with increases in the cost of gas and electricity.

The setting of energy tariffs is a commercial matter for suppliers, within the confines of the energy price cap and the subsidy applied under the Energy Price Guarantee. The EPG is part of the significant package of support the Government has put in place to help all households, and in particular vulnerable households, with the cost of living.