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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether the Government intends to introduce a cap on energy prices.

The Government is committed to extending price protection currently in place for some vulnerable customers to more customers on the poorest value tariffs. My rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State has written to the CEO of Ofgem to ask what action the regulator intends to take to safeguard customers on these tariffs. I will consider how to proceed in light of their response.