Question follow-through · 13371
Billing: Documents
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what data his Department holds on the number of utility companies that charge for paper copies of bills; what assessment he has made of the potential impact of this practice on customers; and
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- Answering body
- Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
- Tabled
- 8 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 12 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 18 Nov 2024 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
8 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what data his Department holds on the number of utility companies that charge for paper copies of bills; what assessment he has made of the potential impact of this practice on customers; and
12 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
18 Nov 2024
Answer published
The Department does not hold this data. Ofgem’s Standard Licence Condition 21B.8 explicitly states that “the licensee must not make a specific charge for the provision of a Bill or statement of account or for access in an appropriate way to the consumptio...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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