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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether it is his Department’s policy that households in Northern Ireland will receive the £100 payment for energy support in November 2022.

The Government has committed to providing the £100 Alternative Fuel Payment this winter. Details will be confirmed shortly.

The Government will deliver this support as fast as possible. There is no central register of people who do not use mains gas for their heating. The Government is working with stakeholders to ascertain the best method of identifying eligible customers and making payments to them.

For Northern Ireland the Government is working with electricity suppliers to explore how the payment could be delivered via electricity bills.