Written Question·Department for Energy Security and Net Zero·UIN 42380

Electricity: Meters

Tabled: 28 March 2025
Answered: 3 April 2025
Named Day

Question

Graham Leadbitter

Scottish National PartyMoray West, Nairn and Strathspey

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps he has taken to protect residential consumers from being charged Business Rate electricity tariffs for communal areas; and what mechanisms exist to challenge such classifications.

Answer

Miatta Fahnbulleh
Communal areas in apartment blocks are charged on a non-domestic energy contract as the organisation who is responsible for them is a business. A Call for Evidence regarding domestic customers with a non-domestic energy supply was published in July 2023 a...

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