Shadow climate change secretary tells MPs the code of conduct fails to offer enough protection for people with severe health conditions
Mr Shapps said the Government had “moved very fast” onIf no prepayment meters could be installed, he said, it would create “additional cases that would end up in court”.
: “It’s too weak, it doesn’t go far enough. I don’t think that we should have the installation of more prepayment meters until the Government gets a real grip. SNP MP Anne McLaughlin, who launched an All-Party Parliamentary Group on Prepayment Meters, said: “I’m not going to welcome this. Instead, I’m going to call it what it is, a complete abdication of responsibility.
“The Government has got to take over and come up with a list of exemptions that cover all vulnerable people, and they need make it enforceable.”
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