“A damning indictment” – Which? response to CMA’s provisional findings in energy market investigation

Which? executive director, Richard Lloyd, said:

“This is a damning indictment of how the energy market is failing consumers, with the biggest suppliers taking advantage of millions of households who have also been hit with the costs of government energy policy.

“Now that we have a clear, official assessment of what’s wrong, we want the regulators to work with consumers to make sure their reforms will be effective this time. In the meantime it’s right to put in place strong extra protection for consumers who don’t, for whatever reason, get a fair and competitive price. We also expect the big suppliers to quickly put in place changes that will bring more transparency and competition in the wholesale energy market.”

Notes to editors:

Almost 210,000 people have backed Which?’s Fair Energy Prices campaign calling for simpler and fairer energy pricing.

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