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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will make it his policy to require landlords who include tenants' energy costs in their rental charges to pass on the Energy Bills Support Scheme credit to their tenants, and to provide a means of redress for those tenants in case that credit is not passed on to them.

Landlords who have a domestic electricity contract with an electricity supplier and resell the electricity to their tenants based on energy usage may be required to comply with the maximum resale price (MRP) rules. The MRP for electricity is currently set as the same price as that paid by the person reselling it. Under these circumstances, the Government expect landlords to pass on the discount received through tenants.

Landlords with a domestic electricity connection who charge ‘all inclusive’ rent, where a fixed cost for energy costs are included in their rental charges, are strongly encouraged to pass on the discount to their tenants.