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 plans to introduce an automatic registration scheme with an opt-out mechanism for the collective switching programme on energy tariffs.

Ofgem are implementing a number of remedies which aim to increase engagement for those customers that have been on standard variable tariffs for 3 or more years. Following their first trial between February and April this year Ofgem plans to run second collective switching trial this autumn.