Meg calls for an end to unfair energy pricing

Meg is supporting a campaign to stop overcharging on pre-payment meters.

Last week, the energy regulator OFGEM highlighted the overcharging of millions of people on pre-payment meters and similar overcharging of 4 million electricity customers in areas not connected to the gas main.

Meg met with Shian housing residents in Hackney to hear about their concerns and has raised the issue within Government.

New Environment Secretary, Ed Miliband made it clear last week that the Government expects the big six utilities companies to take action.

If companies to not act to remedy unfair pricing, the Government will prepare to introduce legislation to prevent it.

Meg said, ‘Pre-payment meters remain popular with many of my constituents as a way of managing their budget but the price differential is too great and we need to get energy companies to make energy cheaper for the poorest, not just those with bank accounts’.

Meg has also welcomed the Government announcement that it will amend the climate change bill to set a target to cut 80 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.

The announcement comes after the Government asked the climate change committee to review the long-term targets for Britain’s emissions.

It concluded that for Britain to play its part, our greenhouse gases by 2050 should be 80 per cent lower. It also concluded that the target should apply to all greenhouse gases not just CO2.