Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent discussions the Government has had with the EU on steps that can be taken together to reduce energy bills.

The PM, BEIS Secretary of State and the Foreign Secretary are regularly engaging with a range of European counterparts on energy security. We are working closely with partners across the G7, including Germany, Italy, France and the European Commission, International Energy Agency (IEA), OPEC+ and others to stabilise energy prices. In particular, ministers have been intensively engaging with major OPEC+ and other oil producing countries to press for measures to stabilise oil prices, and with the IEA and our allies on strategic oil reserve releases.