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Chris Inquires How Park Home Residents Will Receive The £400 Energy Donation

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Tuesday, 12 July, 2022
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Chris Inquires How Park Home Residents Will Receive The £400 Energy Donation

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Christopher Chope Conservative, Christchurch

Will my right hon. Friend explain how people who live in park homes are going to be able to benefit from the £400 donation from the energy price cap?

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Kwasi Kwarteng The Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

I am very pleased to tell my hon. Friend that we recognise the difficulty there. There was a loophole, but we are in the process of consultation about how to deal with that particular issue.

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Christopher Chope Conservative, Christchurch

If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities.

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Kwasi Kwarteng The Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

My Department remains relentlessly focused on energy security for the winter, and I have met many business groups, business people and energy suppliers over the last few days. Only last week, to protect our people from costly bills, we published the Energy Bill, and I am pleased that last week’s fourth round of the contracts for difference scheme was the most successful ever. It secured almost 11 GW across a range of clean technologies, including offshore wind, onshore wind, solar and, for the first time ever, floating offshore wind and tidal stream. This will help to boost our energy security for many years to come.

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Christopher Chope Conservative, Christchurch

In thanking my right hon. Friend for that answer, may I say that his answer to my earlier question will have been of little comfort to more than 100,000 households living in park homes? The Government are apparently still working on how to deal with this issue, but meanwhile those households fear they will miss out while those with second homes benefit more than twice, so can he guarantee that each of those households will get £400 in cash, as an energy bill rebate, whether it be in the form of a voucher, a direct payment or whatever? They need to know now that they will get the £400.

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Kwasi Kwarteng The Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

My hon. Friend has very successfully asked the same question twice, which is fair enough, and I will give him the same answer. We have had the consultation, and we will come up with a response that ensures his constituents get a fair deal on this issue.

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