Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change pursuant to his statement of 2 December 2013, Official Report, column 631, on energy bills, what assessment his Department has made of the distributional effects of paying for social and environmental obligations on (a) energy bills and (b) taxes.
Answer
The Government's latest assessment of the impact of climate change and energy policies on consumer energy bills was in March 20131. This presents an assessment of the distributional impacts of climate change and energy policies across different household types, including by expenditure decile, household composition, heating fuel type, tenure and rurality.
We have not carried out a similar analysis of the distributional impacts of funding social and environmental obligations through general taxation.1https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/estimated-impacts-of-energy-and-climate-change-policies-on-energy-prices-and-bills