Energy bills

UK energy suppliers to spend £500m to cushion pain of rising bills

Energy suppliers will spend £500m helping customers with their energy bills this winter, after the government helped broker a deal involving 12 of the biggest companies in the UK.Suppliers...

E.ON must pay £14.5m to prepayment customers after billing failures

The energy regulator has ordered power supplier E.ON Next to pay £14.5m in compensation to nearly 250,000 prepayment...

UK ‘risks repeat of surging energy bills’ amid continued reliance on gas

Britain is at risk of experiencing a repeat of the sharp increase in energy costs which has fuelled...

UK’s smart meter targets leaving energy users short-changed, says Martin Lewis

Energy customers are being short-changed by “perverse” government targets to install electronic smart meters in homes across the...

Winter fuel: 780,000 UK pensioners entitled to payment will lose it

About 780,000 pensioners who need the winter fuel payment will lose out on it when Labour begins means-testing...

Sunak ‘should apologise for £22bn black hole’, says Starmer during PMQs – video

Keir Starmer said Rishi Sunak should apologise for the '£22bn black hole' in government finances, after Sunak asked if Starmer would publish the impact...

Ministers facing pressure from unions over winter fuel payment cut

The government is facing renewed pressure from unions to change course over its decision to strip the winter fuel allowance from the bulk of...

‘Iron chancellor’ Rachel Reeves faces an early challenge to her authority over winter fuel payments | Andrew Rawnsley

I hope he enjoyed it while it lasted. From being promisingly positive when he moved into Number 10, Sir Keir Starmer’s personal ratings have soured...

There’s no need to cut poorer pensioners’ income. Smarter winter fuel solutions are at hand | Steve Webb

The new government’s honeymoon period with the voters ended at 3.33pm on Monday 29 July. This was when the chancellor stood up to announce...

Labour ministers reveal grave concerns about winter fuel payment cut

Cabinet ministers have grave concerns about Rachel Reeves’s plan to axe the winter fuel allowance for all but the poorest pensioners, the Guardian can...

Support planned for UK households struggling with winter energy bills

Ministers have committed to help households struggling with their gas and electricity bills this winter after energy industry bosses warned that consumer debt had...