Thursday August 28, 2008
Ministers to tell energy firms: 'Use your profits to help poor'
Andrew Grice
Independent
Energy companies could escape a windfall tax on their huge profits if they do more to help people struggling to pay their fuel bills.
Ministers will tell gas and electricity bosses that they want them to take further action to combat fuel poverty. Although they deny threatening a windfall tax, ministers say the firms' response to their call will be taken into account when they consider growing demands by Labour MPs for a one-off raid to fund measures to help poor families meet their bills.
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