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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether tenants who are charged by a landlord for the energy costs incurred through an electricity meter are entitled to the rebate.

If landlords have domestic contracts with their energy supplier, they are required to charge tenants no more than they paid suppliers for the energy, under Ofgem’s Maximum Resale Price rules. This means that the £400 discount should be passed onto tenants.

If landlords have a commercial contract with their supplier, further funding will be available to provide equivalent support for energy bills for the small percentage of domestic energy consumers not reached by the Energy Bills Support Scheme. The Government will announce further details in the Autumn.