Written Question·Department for Energy Security and Net Zero·UIN 112261

Energy: Rented Housing

Tabled: 10 February 2026
Answered: 17 February 2026

Question

Dr Ellie Chowns

Green PartyNorth Herefordshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether he has made an assessment of the effectiveness of extending a specific price cap, comparable to that applying to domestic customers, to landlords of vacant residential properties supp

Answer

Martin McCluskey
The Price Cap was established to protect existing and future domestic customers who pay standard variable and default rates from a ‘loyalty penalty’. The non-domestic energy market is significantly more complicated, with considerable variation in consumpt...

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