Question follow-through · 10195
Utilities: Standing Charges
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.
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- Answering body
- Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
- Tabled
- 21 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 23 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 28 Oct 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 5 · 1 Jul 2026
- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 4 · 1 Jul 2026
- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 2 · 1 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
21 Oct 2024
Question tabled
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.
23 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
28 Oct 2024
Answer published
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...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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