Source · Select Committees · Business and Trade Committee
Recommendation 45
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Acknowledged
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We recommend that the Government urgently publishes its overdue Fairness and Affordability call for evidence,...
Recommendation
We recommend that the Government urgently publishes its overdue Fairness and Affordability call for evidence, particularly in the context of rising energy prices. We recommend that the review includes a distributional analysis of the impact that recovering policy costs from electricity and gas bills has on vulnerable customers and considers moving legacy policy costs to general taxation. Any reapportioning of policy costs from electricity to gas bills must be accompanied by mitigating negative impacts on fuel poor and vulnerable consumers. The review should also include an assessment of the impact that standing charges have on vulnerable customers, and whether these charges are appropriate for customers using prepayment meters.
Government Response Summary
Ofgem will share all available information on distributional effects of different policies with the Department and the Committee and intends to refresh the data used for distributional analysis.
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Government Response
Acknowledged
HM Government
Acknowledged
Ofgem will share all available information on distributional effects of different policies with the Department and the Committee and intends to refresh the data used for distributional analysis. All updated assessments will be shared with the Department and Committee when available.