Annual Energy Statement

Frank Dobson Excerpts

Thursday 31st October 2013 Commons Chamber

[Mr Speaker]

Order. May I remind the House that Members who entered the Chamber after the start of the statement should not expect to be called?

[Frank Dobson (Holborn and St Pancras) (Lab)]

Surely the Secretary of State understands that the public believe that the energy companies are giving Ministers, civil servants and Ofgem the runaround. Would it not be better if the public and pressure groups had access to the figures that clearly mesmerise officialdom and we applied freedom of information to the energy companies?

[Mr Davey]

I agree with the right hon. Gentleman on transparency. That is what I announced in my statement and it is why Ofgem is publishing a consultation on greater financial transparency—so that the accounts of these big energy companies can be properly exposed and we can see from where the profits are made.