Question follow-through · 653
Electricity: Prices
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what his planned timetable is for implementing reforms to decouple electricity prices from gas prices.
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- Answering body
- Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
- Tabled
- 13 May 2026
- Target answer date
- 18 May 2026
- Answer
- 22 May 2026 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
13 May 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what his planned timetable is for implementing reforms to decouple electricity prices from gas prices.
18 May 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
22 May 2026
Answer published
The Government plans to consult later this year on introducing a voluntary Wholesale Contract for Difference (CfD), which would offer existing eligible generators that aren’t already contracted under a CfD the option to seek to agree a fixed price for the...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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