Question follow-through · 19658
Fuel Oil: Prices
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether he is taking steps to protect heating oil customers from market volatility and price rises through the creation of a regulatory regime for heating oil suppliers.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
- Tabled
- 16 Jul 2026
- Target answer date
- 2 Sept 2026
- Answer
- 7 Sept 2026 · 53 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Environment and energy
- Natural Gas: Data Centres · 28 Aug 2026
- Fracking · 14 Sept 2026
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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
16 Jul 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether he is taking steps to protect heating oil customers from market volatility and price rises through the creation of a regulatory regime for heating oil suppliers.
2 Sept 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
7 Sept 2026
Answer published
Government is determined to fight the corner of heating oil customers. We are concerned about the issues in this sector and welcome the Competition and Markets Authority’s (CMA) comprehensive examination of the heating oil industry, published on 15 July 2...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
Strong links require the same MP, department and exact heading. Other same-department questions are shown as unreviewed candidates, not as confirmed follow-ups. No debate link is asserted unless a stable source relationship exists.
Natural Gas: Data Centres
28 Aug 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, how many data centres currently in operation are powered by gas; and what assessment her department has made of the emissions from these data centres, relative to those connected to the grid.
Fracking
14 Sept 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether she is taking steps to enact a permanent statutory ban on fracking, including by (1) addressing the exemption in the fracking moratorium which permits applications for low-volume hydr