Energy Prices: Support for Business

Tom Hunt Excerpts
Thursday 22nd September 2022

(2 years, 3 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Tom Hunt Portrait Tom Hunt (Ipswich) (Con)
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I very much welcome this package of support for business, as I welcomed the support for domestic users. However, I was contacted yesterday by Alan, a resident of Orwell Quay, who said he had experienced a 300% increase in the service charge for heating the communal areas. He wanted to know whether the Government have a plan to support leaseholders in places such as Orwell Quay in Ipswich.

Jacob Rees-Mogg Portrait Mr Rees-Mogg
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We will legislate to ensure that the reduction in the wholesale cost is fed through to people in mansion blocks or whose energy is bought centrally and who are then charged through a service charge. That will be a fundamental part of these proposals.