Caroline Flint – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Energy and Climate Change

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Caroline Flint on 2014-04-29.

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, pursuant to the Oral Answer of 3 April 2014, Official Report, column 982, on energy markets: competition, what measures his Department has introduced to deregulate the energy market since 2010.

Michael Fallon

DECC keeps all its regulations under review to ensure that they are necessary, proportionate, and have the lowest possible cost on business, while protecting environmental and consumer needs. The Department reviewed all its regulations in the Red Tape Challenge Energy and Environment themes and identified 125 to be scrapped or improved by the end of this Parliament.

In addition, the Department has reduced the regulatory burden for small domestic suppliers by raising the customer number threshold at which suppliers must comply with certain Government schemes from 50,000 customers set by the previous government to 250,000. Since raising the threshold 11 new companies have entered the market.