My Lords, on this amendment, the noble Lord has misunderstood the nature of the proposition and downplayed the nature of the problem. He says that all companies will have social tariffs in a couple of years. I hope that that is true and that it means that the majority—even pretty well all—of the 2 million people who have affordability problems will have been helped by those schemes.
Water Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Lord Whitty
(Labour)
in the House of Lords on Thursday, 6 February 2014.
It occurred during Committee of the Whole House (HL)
and
Debate on bills on Water Bill.
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