Written Question·Department for Energy Security and Net Zero·UIN 10195

Utilities: Standing Charges

Tabled: 21 October 2024

Answered: 28 October 2024

Question

Rupert Lowe

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of reviewing the system of standing charges for utilities.

Answer

Miatta Fahnbulleh

The Government has worked constructively with the regulator on the issue of standing charges, and we are committed to lowering the cost of them. The setting of standing charges is a commercial matter for suppliers. Ofgem’s recently published discussion pa...

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