Tom Greatrex MP, Labour’s Shadow Energy Minister, commenting on the Energy and Climate Change select committee report on price comparison sites, said:

“People have a right to expect price comparison websites to provide accurate and complete information without fear or favour. If tariffs are being excluded simply because the website does not receive commission if someone switches to them, that is misleading for consumers and undermines the whole point of comparing prices. 

“The only way to restore people’s trust is to freeze prices until 2017, so that bills can fall but not rise, reform the energy market and create a tough new regulator to curb this sort of rip-off behaviour, as Labour has proposed.”