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Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Volume 646: debated on Tuesday 4 September 2018

Draft Warm Home Discount (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2018

The following is an extract from First Delegated Legislation Committee on Draft Warm Home Discount (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2018 on 9 July 2018.

The regulations we are debating today introduce a key change to the scheme. I have decided that more energy suppliers should be required to offer the warm home discount to customers so that from winter 2019 about 99% of the domestic market will be covered by obligated suppliers. [Official Report, First Delegated Legislation Committee, 9 July 2018, c. 4.]

Letter of correction from Claire Perry:

An error has been identified in my speech in the First Delegated Legislation Committee on 9 July 2018.

The correct response should have been:

The regulations we are debating today introduce a key change to the scheme. I have decided that more energy suppliers should be required to offer the warm home discount to customers so that from winter 2020 about 99% of the domestic market will be covered by obligated suppliers.