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MPs have urged the government to take action to reduce energy bills for pensioners and other vulnerable groups.
Theresa Villiers, a former Tory cabinet minister, and several other MPs put forward ideas for further action during business, energy and industrial strategy questions on Tuesday.
Ms Villiers told the House of Commons: “The price cap, the cut in fuel duty and warm homes discount are providing vital help with bills, but will the government commit to further action domestically and internationally to try to get energy prices down to help pensioners and other vulnerable groups?”
Remove renewables surcharge, MP suggests
Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng said: “[She] is absolutely right to identify this as an issue and that’s why we’re working not only within this government, but across G7 partners to make sure that we get energy supply, diverse sources of supply which can keep prices down.”
Karl McCartney, Conservative MP for Lincoln, said: “An effective way for household energy bills in Lincoln and across the UK to be cut by 25% right now is by the removal of the renewables surcharge on everyone’s bills, even temporarily.
“Has the minister and his colleagues put that simple idea to their Treasury colleagues at all?”
Business minister George Freeman replied: “I can assure you lots of ideas have been put to Treasury colleagues.
“The truth is that the falling cost of UK renewables, offshore wind now down 60% through the contracts for difference, is the best protection against global supply chain volatility and this country has led the way.”
Government’s plans ‘pretty miserable’, Labour MP says
Labour’s shadow climate change minister, Alan Whitehead, said the government’s plans to assist with rising energy prices were “pretty miserable” and “will not remotely cover the bulk of the increases and we still don’t…
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Source : skynews
