UK's Minister of State for Energy and Climate Change Gregory Barker: "We may be out of touch with the solar lobby, but we are not out of touch with energy bill payers"

House of Commons Hansard Debates for 31 Oct 2011 (pt 0001)

The right hon. Lady says that we are out of touch. We may be out of touch with the solar lobby, but we are not out of touch with energy bill payers. She says that they are groaning under a £175 increase, but she wants to put that up. If we did not act now, consumers would face massive increases in energy bills. Today, she has come to the House with a different face on and she does not care about the cost that she proposes to add to energy bills. If energy bills go unchecked, it would add around £1 billion a year—that might be small beer to Opposition Members, but Government Members understand just how much strain energy consumers are under.