Minister tells energy suppliers to do more to help households tackle unpaid bills this winter
Source: The Guardian ·
Bosses from Great Britain’s biggest energy companies called to meeting as part of government’s debt relief planAn energy minister has told the bosses of Great Britain’s biggest energy suppliers to do more to help households get on top of their unpaid energy bills this winter, before the government spends almost £2.5bn to help write off the country’s record high debts.Energy bosses were summoned…
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An energy minister has told the bosses of Great Britain’s biggest energy suppliers to do more to help households get on top of their unpaid energy bills this winter, before the government spends almost £2.5bn to help write off the country’s record high debts. Energy bosses were summoned to a roundtable meeting on Thursday to discuss the government’s plan to pay down the energy debts of about 2.4m of the hardest-hit households. The debt relief scheme is part of a wider “circuit-breaker” strategy put forward by the chancellor in the annual budget statement last month. This includes measures to tackle household energy debt, which could reach £7bn by the end of the year. The minister for energy consumers, Polly Billington, is understood to have told bosses from energy companies including Octopus Energy, British Gas and EDF Energy that suppliers would still need to play a “crucial role” in tackling the longstanding issue of problem debt alongside the government’s multibillion-pound…
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