Behaviour of energy companies ‘wholly unacceptable’, says MP

Simon Danczuk, Rochdale MP

Rochdale MP Simon Danczuk has slammed the way that energy companies treat consumers.

Speaking in the House of Commons to back Ed Milliband’s Energy Price Freeze, Mr Danczuk was highly critical of the way some energy companies treat businesses. He argued that many small businesses in Rochdale have been “conned, quite literally, into energy deals that are wholly inappropriate for them” and that more needs to be done to help struggling businesses.

Mr Danczuk also used the debate to highlight the case of Rochdale constituent Alan Valentine, who faced repeated demands for energy bills from his late mother’s account that had already been paid.

Mr Danczuk highlighted Mr Valentine’s concerns that, “many thousands may be sent demands for bills already paid, many hundreds of whom may be elderly or forgetful, many of whom may then pay the bill again.” He described this kind of behaviour from energy companies as "wholly unacceptable".

Mr Danczuk’s contribution to the debate can be read at:

http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201314/cmhansrd/cm131106/debtext/131106-0003.htm#13110677001264