My hon. Friend’s point about fear is something that I perhaps did not cover enough in my remarks. The issue is not only that people fear not having enough to pay a bill. It has been in common parlance that we should be worried about energy costs, and people are really worrying. There is also the fear that, when people are struggling to get by—I do not know how many people in this room this will resonate with—and a bill comes in, they sometimes do not want to look at it or acknowledge that it is there; they put it away. People might panic about their bills without realising that they actually have money. My hon. Friend’s point about people’s fear is central to the fact that people should be getting their money back.
Energy Suppliers: Customer Credit
Proceeding contribution from
Drew Hendry
(Scottish National Party)
in the House of Commons on Wednesday, 22 February 2023.
It occurred during Debate on Energy Suppliers: Customer Credit.
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