Energy Bills

Jim Cunningham Excerpts

Monday 2nd December 2013 Commons Chamber

[Mr Davey]

I think that would be very unwise. I am sure that the Chancellor’s lawyers would explain that it is not legally possible.

[Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South) (Lab)]

We need to ask what the Secretary of State has been doing for the past three and a half years. He has blamed everybody but himself. When the issue first arose, he told people to wear pullovers. What he is offering people today is less than 90p a week off their energy bills. How does that square with the bedroom tax? It will affect a hell of a lot of poor people in this country. This must be one of the cruellest Governments we have ever had.