Among them was East Hampshire MP Damian Hinds, who said: “I’ve got thousands of constituents who rely on oil for their heating and hot water.<\/p>\n
“We need help right now to make sure people can afford to heat their homes, particularly those vulnerable customers who might otherwise struggle.<\/p>\n
“We got a very clear message from the ministers that there is no issue with supply of oil.<\/p>\n
“There was a month’s worth of orders placed within a couple of days and, of course, that has a big effect on pricing and being able to get a delivery in a timely fashion.<\/p>\n
“That should ease off over time but… when people have had individual issues with deliveries or with orders not honoured – that’s really bad.”<\/p>\n
Newbury’s Liberal Democrat MP Lee Dillon said families in his constituency were “being left to shoulder the worst of these global shocks, at the very moment they are already battling the cost\u2011of\u2011living crisis”.<\/p>\n
He said that 30 percent of all homes in his constituency were off the gas grid leaving more than 13,000 households “abandoned” by the government.<\/p>\n
He added: “The government must provide immediate relief for households facing rocketing oil and gas prices caused by the conflict in the Middle East.<\/p>\n
On Tuesday, Chancellor Rachel Reeves said the Competition and Markets Authority would look at the issues around heating oil to ensure customers were being treated fairly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Among them was East Hampshire MP Damian Hinds, who said: “I’ve got thousands of constituents who rely on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":471408,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-471407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}