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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what the evidential basis was for his Department's decision to set the level of support for people who use heating oil at £100.

The £100 payment has been calculated to ensure that a typical customer using heating oil does not face a higher rate of growth in their heating costs since last winter, in comparison to those using mains gas who are supported by the Energy Price Guarantee.

More details on the exact calculation can be found on pages 28-29 of the Government’s published Impact Assessment:

https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill/58-03/0159/AnnexB.pdf.