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 conduct an outreach and public information campaign to encourage landlords with a domestic electricity connection who charge all-inclusive rent to pass on the discount to their tenants.

Landlords with a domestic electricity connection who charge ‘all inclusive’ rent with no specified charge for gas or electricity should be passing on the discounted payments to tenants.

Landlords who resell the electricity to their tenants based on energy usage must comply with Ofgem’s ‘maximum resale price’ rules. Ofgem’s guidance is available here.

The Government is working with the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities to enlist the support of key stakeholder groups in the private rented sector to help communicate this information.