Part of Energy and Climate Change – in the House of Commons at 10:30 am on 5 November 2009.
David Kidney
Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Department of Energy and Climate Change
10:30,
5 November 2009
I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving me the power to announce the Government's next legislative programme. As I said in my first answer, subject to the proper procedure of this House we do intend that there will be legislation. The regulator, Ofgem, has the principal responsibility for referrals to the Competition Commission, but I hope the hon. Gentleman will have regard to the new quarterly publication of the relationship between wholesale and retail prices. I think that is starting to turn consumers' heat onto their energy suppliers.
Some licence changes have taken place, and some are about to, but three things taken together-the results of the probe, the licence changes and our legislative proposals-will ensure that the heat continues to be kept on suppliers.