Question follow-through · 26333
Smart Export Guarantee
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of reforming the Smart Export Guarantee to set minimum terms of tariffs.
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- Answering body
- Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
- Tabled
- 24 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 28 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 3 Feb 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
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Recorded timeline
24 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of reforming the Smart Export Guarantee to set minimum terms of tariffs.
28 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
3 Feb 2025
Answer published
The Smart Export Guarantee (SEG) is a market-led mechanism in which energy suppliers, not government, set both tariff levels and structure. This is to encourage innovation and competition between suppliers. The Government keeps the SEG under regular revie...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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