Caroline Flint MP, Labour’s Shadow Energy and Climate Change Secretary, commenting on E.ON’s decision to increase their prices by 3.7% from 18 January 2014, said:

“This latest price hike just goes to show that even after the Government’s changes to green levies people’s energy bills will be higher this winter than last. This is why nothing less than a price freeze and reforms to stop the energy companies overcharging again in the future will do.

"The Government boasts about the economic recovery, but for millions this is still no recovery at all. Soaring energy bills are one of the main reasons working people are £1,600 a year worse off under David Cameron.”