Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what funding his Department will provide to the devolved administrations to help support the cost of meeting energy bills during the winter of 2025-26.

Energy policy is a transferred matter in Northern Ireland, falling within the legislative competence of the Northern Ireland Assembly and the responsibility of the Northern Ireland Executive.

Accordingly, help in supporting the cost of meeting energy bills during the winter of 2025-26 is a matter for the relevant Northern Ireland Executive Ministers.

We recognise that we need to support households struggling with bills whilst we transition to clean power by 2030. On 19 June we announced that we are expanding the Warm Home Discount to around an additional 2.7 million households in England, Wales and Scotland. This means that from this winter, around 6 million low-income households will receive the £150 support to help with their energy bills.