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Where it is expected that the government will cap the unit rate so that the typical household energy bill will be limited to £2500. if they go ahead with that, £500 higher than now, but it had been expected to go as high as £3500 from next month. how could they do that? it is thought there could be a pot of money that the energy suppliers, the people who deliver the bill to your door back, they would be able to take money from the government so that they can still afford to pay the high gas wholesale costs to the companies like bp and shell who are producing and selling it on. we don't know...

Why don't we reduce any standing charges because you mark this is how the price cap actually has two different bits it controls. one is that daily charge for electricity and gas and the unit rate which depends on how much we use be standing charge and re—numerator has gone upon identity. there are fixed costs that are required to flow into our bills and that is what the standing charges for. but it has also gone up to reflect some of the supplier failures and other things that has gone wrong in the energy market in recent years. there are genuine because that have to be recovered but it has ...

When they are making very big profits on top of that. now, the changes we're making today to make sure that the change in price regulation can keep up with the change in the market. it does mean as costs go up, yes the price couple change more frequently, but also costs come down those prices will come down more quickly as well. what we are doing is trying to make sure that customer interests are protected in what ultimately is a very challenging market for everyone. let's speak to justina miltienyte, head of policy at uswitch. thank you forjoining us. can we go back to basics. explain to us, ...

Approximately £1280 to £1660. largely as a consequence of the increase in the wholesale market we have seen over the last few weeks and months. have seen over the last few weeks and months-_ have seen over the last few weeks and months. .,, , _, , and months. people may be confused, i am certainly — and months. people may be confused, i am certainly one _ and months. people may be confused, i am certainly one of— and months. people may be confused, i am certainly one of them, _ and months. people may be confused, i am certainly one of them, the - i am certainly one of them, the price cap...

I do not care what's on it. i'm going to pay attention to the debates and the convention speeches. but it isn't just about the presidential elections. this is about the senate and congressional elections. and these candidates do have, you know, coat tails. and they are going to bring candidates along with them. one of the things that is a very technical point but it's an important one. candidates are allowed to spend by lowest unit rate the dollars for advertising six days out before an election, whereas super pacs are not. they have to pay what could be 30% more on certain occasions. so democ...