High cost of living: Impact on households
This briefing covers how the high period of inflation in the UK from 2021 to 2024 continues to affect household incomes, spending, poverty, savings and debt.
This note provides an overview of the current Government's energy policy.
Energy Policy Overview (609 KB , PDF)
The Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) set out its main priorities for this Parliament in its Single departmental plan: 2015 to 2020, updated in February 2016.
Its main objects are to:
The key mechanisms and drivers to deliver this are described in this briefing. They include policy on:
This briefing also covers progress on decarbonisation in the UK and this Government’s key announcements on energy policy.
Energy Policy Overview (609 KB , PDF)
This briefing covers how the high period of inflation in the UK from 2021 to 2024 continues to affect household incomes, spending, poverty, savings and debt.
The Great British Energy Bill 2024-25 was introduced to the Commons on 25 July 2024. The second reading of the bill took place on 5 September 2024 and the committee stage of the bill took place between 8 and 15 October 2024. The report stage and third reading of the bill is scheduled for 29 October 2024. The bill would create a new, publicly owned company, Great British Energy, designed to invest in and develop clean energy.
Petrol and diesel prices hit record highs in July 2022. Since then they have fallen, but concern remains around so-called 'rocket and feather pricing'.