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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether new fuel poverty and home energy efficiency policies will be included in his Department's forthcoming Clean Growth Plan.

We cannot comment on the detailed content of the plan at this stage. However, it will set out our proposals for decarbonising the UK economy through the 2020s.

Energy efficiency is the best long term solution to tackling fuel poverty. Our manifesto set out that we will help to insulate 1 million homes this Parliament, in line with our commitment to address fuel poverty. From April 2017, a reformed supplier obligation, ECO Help to Heat, will upgrade the energy efficiency of well over 200,000 homes per year.