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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what equality impact assessment his Department has undertaken on the introduction of a cap on energy bills; and if he will place a copy of that assessment in the Library.

My rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State wrote to the CEO of Ofgem on 21 June asking him to advise on what action the regulator might take to protect consumers on the poorest value tariffs and to consider the future of standard variable tariffs. The Department has not undertaken an equality impact assessment on the introduction of a cap on energy bills. The Secretary of State will decide on how to proceed when he has considered Ofgem’s proposals.