I had a look in /boot/config.txt, but there was nothing of use there. I did come across something else though;
https://github.com/tasanakorn/rpi-fbcp
This utility will copy all the data from my primary framebuffer (fb0 / HDMI) to my secondary framebuffer (fb1/ USB). I've set it up to auto-run on start-up and it kind of works now. My next problem is that the refresh rate is only around 1 fps!