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Uk Business Energy News Blog (Free subscription) | 11/26/2008
... months. They are very healthy companies but they have to refinance their debt,” Mr Buchanan said. Peter Luff, the Conservative chair of the Committee said afterwards: “This has to hit consumers. It has to. They will be puzzled to see oil prices tumbling and no reduction in their gas bills, but the forward gas market remains ahead [of the current price] throughout 2010 and 2011.” Most...
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Uk Business Energy News Blog (Free subscription) | 11/25/2008
... should be paying each month to ensure they clear the amount due on their bills. Conservative MP Peter Luff, chairman of the Business and Enterprise Select Committee, said firms had been raising direct debit payments even when customers’ accounts were in credit and warned this practice might be widespread. An Ofgem spokesman said there was “no quantified evidence indicating misuse...
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Les Bonner (Free subscription) | 11/22/2008
A senior MP has said he believes energy companies are boosting their cash flow by increasing customers’ direct debit payments even when they are in credit. Conservative Peter Luff, chairman of the business and enterprise select committee, is calling on the energy regulator Ofgem to launch an inquiry. Energy suppliers deny profiting by increasing direct debit payments. The Energy [...]...
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Daily Mail News (Free subscription) | 11/25/2008
Parliamentary rules should be changed to allow Peter Mandelson to appear before the House of Commons, MPs said yesterday.
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Express & Star (Free subscription) | 10/29/2008
The future of Hartlebury Castle could be under further threat because of the financial downturn, campaigners fear. Now an MP has appealed to Church Commissioners who own the building not to be tempted to sell it to developers. Mid-Worcestershire MP Peter Luff has asked Sir Stuart Bell MP, Parliamentary representative of the Church Commissioners in the House [...]
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Times Online (Free subscription) | 10/22/2008
To watch Lord Mandelson before a select committee was to see a master at work. No, make that a grandmaster. “Happy birthday!” gushed Peter Luff, the Tory chairman of the Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Committee.
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IndyBlogs (Free subscription) | 10/23/2008
... looming, the minister responsible for British industry should be held to account regularly. Peter Luff, chairman of the Business Select Committee, is calling for the rules to be changed so that Mandelson can be quizzed at the Commons dispatch box. He is writing to the Commons leader Harriet Harman. "We have to take this forward and find a mechanism to enable him to be directly questioned...
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The Herald (Free subscription) | 10/22/2008
... committee members want changing as their acronym is BERRC.Proceedings began jovially enough as Peter Luff, committee chairman, wished the Count many happy returns. The old stager is 55. Or should that be 555 in Vampire years'It was like old times when the Count was asked a straightforward question about newspaper articles - what else? - which suggested he was in favour of a) part-privatisation...
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The Herald (Free subscription) | 10/22/2008
The tantalising prospect of Peter Mandelson appearing in the Commons to answer questions from MPs was raised last night after backbenchers expressed frustration that, at the time of a looming recession, Westminster’s Business Secretary operates from the House of Lords.
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The Herald (Free subscription) | 10/22/2008
... committee members want changing as their acronym is BERRC.Proceedings began jovially enough as Peter Luff, committee chairman, wished the Count many happy returns. The old stager is 55. Or should that be 555 in Vampire years'It was like old times when the Count was asked a straightforward question about newspaper articles - what else? - which suggested he was in favour of a) part-privatisation...
