Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what estimate her Department made of the number of people who would receive the Alternative Fuel Payment before its introduction; and how many people have received the Alternative Fuel Payment since its introduction.

The Department estimated that around 2 million people in the UK use alternative fuels and are eligible for this payment.

The Alternative Fund for the Alternative Fuel Payment, the element which requires an application, launched recently on 6 March and early data is still being collected. Electricity suppliers, who deliver the automatic enrolment element of the scheme, recently provided MPAN-level delivery data to the Government. Transparency data will be published in due course.