Ofgem’s ‘E-serve’ delivery body will be separated from the regulator and its future set out as part of a new ‘delivery landscape’ by the time of the Autumn Statement.

The Department of Energy and Climate Change (Decc) says spinning off E-serve – which coincides with a government review of independent regulators – is intended to ensure that regulator is “focused on the core function of economic regulation and promoting competition for the benefit of customers”.