Domestic Energy Tariffs

Part of Energy and Climate Change – in the House of Commons at 10:30 am on 9 July 2009.

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Photo of Alan Simpson Alan Simpson Labour, Nottingham South 10:30, 9 July 2009

The Secretary of State will recall that earlier in the year the Prime Minister met a group of MPs who were concerned about the complete mess the energy companies are making of social tariffs. Only 600,000 households of the 5.1 million in fuel poverty are included in the tariffs, many of which are so obscure and inaccessible that they are just a really bad joke. At the time, the Prime Minister said that he was in favour of a gold standard scheme that would be made mandatory for the industry as a whole. Can the Secretary of State say how close we are to having such a mandatory scheme?