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To: UK Government
Abolish Gas and Electricity Standing Charges
Dear Mr Sunak,
On your policy for the UK Cost of Living Crisis:
Gas and Electricity Standing Charges should be scrapped. We pay an initial fee for connection, and in some areas another fee if we want disconnection. Mr Sunak you have has missed this vital help to all which would cost GB PLC nothing. Standing Charges amount to £276 on dual tariff household bills and the difference between what he claims he is helping us with (£400 off bills) is only £124, which will be more than clawed back into the Gas and Electricity companies coffers when they up the standing charges in October. I imagine it would also be more cost effective for the government to implement. It is also a discriminatory charge, single people living alone are having to pay the same standing charges as a household with a family. It is also discriminatory in that it is charged at the same rate per household regardless of how much gas/electricity a household can actually afford to use. The people who use less are proportionately paying a higher percentage in standing charge. There is never a clear reason given for these charges which are based on the property and not the consumer, yet the household bill payer is expected to pay for it, even during any period of being away from the property. Abolishing these discriminatory and unnecessary fixed charges should have been your priority as the person with the power to do so.
On your policy for the UK Cost of Living Crisis:
Gas and Electricity Standing Charges should be scrapped. We pay an initial fee for connection, and in some areas another fee if we want disconnection. Mr Sunak you have has missed this vital help to all which would cost GB PLC nothing. Standing Charges amount to £276 on dual tariff household bills and the difference between what he claims he is helping us with (£400 off bills) is only £124, which will be more than clawed back into the Gas and Electricity companies coffers when they up the standing charges in October. I imagine it would also be more cost effective for the government to implement. It is also a discriminatory charge, single people living alone are having to pay the same standing charges as a household with a family. It is also discriminatory in that it is charged at the same rate per household regardless of how much gas/electricity a household can actually afford to use. The people who use less are proportionately paying a higher percentage in standing charge. There is never a clear reason given for these charges which are based on the property and not the consumer, yet the household bill payer is expected to pay for it, even during any period of being away from the property. Abolishing these discriminatory and unnecessary fixed charges should have been your priority as the person with the power to do so.
Why is this important?
It effects every bill payer.
