Recommendation 24

Analysis from the Office for Budget Responsibility concluded that the size of the government’s financial support for energy bills (relative to Gross Domestic Product) was one of the highest in Europe because of the UK’s reliance on natural gas.69 The Department highlighted to us the importance of its clean power mission in “getting us off the rollercoaster” of international fossil fuel markets and volatile prices.70 It told us the deployment of, for example, low carbon renewable electricity will reduce the UK’s reliance on gas.71