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Of course we had that investigation by the times which exposed how debt agents for british gas had broken into vulnerable people s homes in order to fit these meters, so there has been a lot of concern and discussion around all of this since then. so, to give you a sense of the scale, here, every day last year, over 1000 warrants of entry were granted to energy companies, mainly in order to forcibly fit these meters in people s homes. now, we ve obtained this new internal advice to all magistrates which reflects that there was some sort of internal disquiet that the process had been watered down and that magistrates were essentially being obliged to take energy companies claims in good faith with little or no questioning. so, the top magistrate, duncan webster, told his colleagues last month that it would be irrational to block the claims made by energy companies under oath and when he was answering a question about what had changed since the days when such applications were scrutinis ....