{"id":4570,"date":"2025-07-15T10:17:39","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T10:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/?p=4570"},"modified":"2026-03-20T10:56:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T10:56:59","slug":"industrial-electricity-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/?p=4570","title":{"rendered":"Industrial Electricity Prices"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>John Whittingdale\u00a0Conservative, Maldon<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Friday, I visited C&amp;M Precision Ltd, a small manufacturing company in my&nbsp;constituency. Electricity represents easily its biggest cost. What is the&nbsp;Minister&nbsp;doing to listen to small and medium-sized enterprises like C&amp;M who feel that their voice is simply not being heard?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Miatta Fahnbulleh\u00a0Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are listening to businesses, particularly small and medium-sized businesses. We have heard companies complain, for example, about being locked into expensive fixed-term contracts. That is why Ofgem is working to deliver blend-and-extend contracts so that businesses can benefit from lower prices. We have heard their frustration at the lack of a redress system, which is why last December we expanded the ombudsman service to 99% of businesses so that they can get redress and financial awards of up to \u00a320,000. We have also heard their frustration about energy brokers, which is why we have consulted on introducing regulation of third-party intermediaries. We will respond in due course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sir John Whittingdale questions the Minister on high energy costs for small businesses, urging attention to local Maldon business C&#038;M Precision Ltd, highlighting their feeling unheard in policy decisions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4707,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_header_footer","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-speeches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4570"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5880,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4570\/revisions\/5880"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}