Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, if he will make it his policy to allow households to redeem the warm home discount against the cost of their gas bill.

It is important that a scheme on the scale of the Warm Home Discount – which provides help to over 2 million households annually – can be easily and cost-effectively delivered. The current approach ensures this is the case. Having different delivery mechanisms under the scheme, for example to allow some customers to redeem their rebate against their gas bills, would increase the cost of the scheme to consumers.

Data for the number of households who have requested to have their Warm Home Discount rebates redeemed against their gas bill is not available.