Department for Energy Security and Net Zero written question – answered at on 29 October 2025.
Jim Shannon
DUP, Strangford
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what funding his Department will provide to the devolved administrations to help support the cost of meeting energy Bills during the winter of 2025-26.
Martin McCluskey
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
Energy policy is a transferred matter in Northern Ireland, falling within the legislative competence of the Northern Ireland Assembly and the responsibility of the Northern Ireland Executive.
Accordingly, help in supporting the cost of meeting energy Bills during the winter of 2025-26 is a matter for the relevant Northern Ireland Executive Ministers.
We recognise that we need to support households struggling with bills whilst we transition to clean power by 2030. On 19 June we announced that we are expanding the Warm Home Discount to around an additional 2.7 million households in England, Wales and Scotland. This means that from this winter, around 6 million low-income households will receive the £150 support to help with their energy bills.
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