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HANSARD Energy Bills: Self-disconnectionAs I set out to the House on Monday, the Government recognise the importance of protecting customers, including those on prepayment meters. This weekend, the Secretary of State…25 Jan 2023HANSARD Energy Bills: Self-disconnectionThat kind of crude socialist intervention in the market would be counterproductive, and it would be typical of measures that come from the Labour party. Its members go in with…25 Jan 2023HANSARD Energy Bills: Self-disconnectionI thank my hon. Friend for her extremely pertinent question. We will be promoting through a whole array of groups and, of course, local authorities are key partners in that. We…25 Jan 2023HANSARD Energy Bills: Self-disconnectionI thank the hon. Lady for her question. I think she will find that the letter stated that the Government had announced that the scheme would open in January, which was true—we did…25 Jan 2023HANSARD Energy Bills: Self-disconnectionThe point about a physical disconnection—I think that there may have been only one in the UK last year—is that it differs from what happens with a prepayment meter. By having a…25 Jan 2023HANSARD Energy Bills: Self-disconnectionI thank the hon. Lady for her question. If she will follow that up with some details, I will happily write to her and come back on the specific points she has raised.25 Jan 2023HANSARD Energy Bills: Self-disconnectionThe decision was made yesterday and I was able to brief colleagues, including the hon. Gentleman—I thank him for attending the meeting—yesterday afternoon, so I have tried to move…25 Jan 2023HANSARD Energy Bills: Self-disconnectionThe hon. Gentleman is quite right to highlight the residents of Castle View House and the park home residents in his constituency, who are waiting and expecting to hear that they…25 Jan 2023HANSARD Energy Bills: Self-disconnectionThe hon. Lady has passionately espoused the interests of her constituents over a considerable time, and I share and understand her frustration. She did not find this out yesterday…25 Jan 2023HANSARD Energy Bills: Self-disconnectionMy hon. Friend is right that identifying the location of park homes might sound relatively simple, and I hope I have made it clear that there are levels of complexity that have to…25 Jan 2023HANSARD Energy Bills: Self-disconnectionThose who know the hon. Gentleman will know he is normally better than that. He knows, because we talk about it, just how hard the Department is working to make sure we get these…25 Jan 2023HANSARD Energy Bills: Self-disconnectionI thank my hon. Friend for his kind words. We are absolutely focused on that, and we all have a role to play in increasing awareness of the vouchers, which are so valuable to…25 Jan 2023HANSARD Energy Bills: Self-disconnectionI pay tribute to the hon. Lady for her focus on and proper championing of this issue. I am not the Secretary of State but, as the Minister for Energy and Climate, I will instruct…25 Jan 2023HANSARD Energy Bills: Self-disconnectionI can assure the hon. Gentleman that we will look carefully at the cost pressures across different markets, as we did when we came up with the alternative fuel payment, which was…25 Jan 2023HANSARD Energy Bills: Self-disconnectionI share the hon. Lady’s frustration. Obviously we would have liked it to get to them sooner, but I have laid out the reasons why it has not. If their electricity is supplied by a…25 Jan 2023HANSARD Nuclear Power: DungenessIt is a great pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mrs Cummins—I think it is the first time I have had the privilege. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Folkestone…24 Jan 2023HANSARD Nuclear Power: DungenessMy hon. Friend is right. If I have understood it correctly, previously this was very much predicated on modern gigawatt scale reactors only. That will not be the case now.…24 Jan 2023HANSARD Prepayment MetersSuppliers are required to provide emergency and friendly hours credit to all prepayment meter customers, and where a supplier identifies that a customer in a vulnerable situation…23 Jan 2023HANSARD Prepayment MetersHeat and light, not least as driven by the current energy prices, constitute a significant cost to families and to the nation. We have to work with the system to provide…23 Jan 2023HANSARD Prepayment MetersI thank the hon. Lady for her question. Switching any customer from smart credit to smart prepayment can take place only after an energy supplier has gone through a prescribed…23 Jan 2023