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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether the Energy Bill Relief Scheme will cap the amount of (a) standing charges and (b) costs that gas and electricity suppliers can charge businesses; and whether that Scheme will cap profits of those suppliers.

Applying a price cap in the non-domestic market similar to the domestic market would be impractical, so the Government has designed an equivalent scheme that applies a discount on energy bills with reference to a Government-supported price. A robust audit, compliance and enforcement regime will be in place to ensure neither suppliers nor businesses will disproportionately gain from or be disadvantaged by the scheme.