Energy and fuel poverty - live webchat with Baroness Verma, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for the Department of Energy & Climate Change

I've really enjoyed the questions and the level of interest from all the gransnetters, and I have found this session really useful.

You can find more information at gov.uk/warmthiswinter

www.thepeoplesassembly.org.uk/time_to_act_on_climate_change?e=716709a0a0b7e844b1dd62d5373bedf3&utm_source=thepeoplesassembly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=climate2&n=3

For those who live near London and do not think the government is doing enough.

"Hello crun,

You talk about tariffs and what we've recognised early on is that energy companies had far too many tariffs that were confusing, and that the consumer found it difficult to actually navigate which tariff best suited them. This government has decided that energy companies needed to simplify their tariffs and ensure that their customers were given the information on the cheapest tariffs."

...which doesn't answer the issue at all, does it!

She's a politician, crun, what do you expect?

She did rather better than Harriet Harman, though...

No idea, Harriet Harman wasn't on gransnet.
How many questions did each one answer?

She answered ten on here and as crun said, she did not answer them properly. In fact a lot of her answers just repeated government mantra.

Her answer to my question on fracking was that it would help to ensure that we have a self-sufficient energy supply. Anyone involved agrees that the gas will be sold to the highest bidder and not kept in this country.

I'm very surprised you didn't look at Mumsnet to see what HH said at the time, durhamjen. The thread's still there of course, available for anyone to view.

(Of course, as you'd expect, a lot of her answers just repeated government mantra.)

(Sorry, Labour party mantra!)

He misquote of stats re Green Deal was astounding. Bit of a difference between a few thousand and a million.
But she is part of a government that has been repeatedly reprimanded by the UK's statistics authority for misleading parliament by quoting erroneous statistics.