Scottish and Southern cuts gas bills

By Harry Wallop, Consumer Affairs Editor Published: 5:17PM GMT 04 Mar 2010

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However, it rught away came underneath conflict for the "token gesture" with appetite experts observant the association should have cut by far more.

A patron with a twin fuel comment with Scottish and Southern receiving both gas and physical phenomenon will see their bills tumble by �30, or 4 per cent, to �1,193.

Bills "must fall" after British Gas"s "dangerous" enlarge British Gas will be cheered by cold spell Scottish and Southern plans to set up Shetland Isles breeze plantation Scottish Power cuts bills, but experts contend it is insignificant Gas bills scarcely doubled in 3 years, notwithstanding indiscriminate prices being reduce E. ON drops prices for 4.1 million physical phenomenon customers, but not gas

Those that have usually gas will see their check tumble by �56, or 7 per cent, to �715.

However, bills are still at slightest a third higher than dual years ago and experts claimed Scottish and Southern had unsuccessful to pass on sufficient of the unemployment in the cost of indiscriminate appetite to customers. They additionally forked out that the cut usually comes in to outcome at the finish of March, when business are approaching to have incited down their heating.

David Hunter, appetite researcher from McKinnon & Clarke said: "This 4 per cent on gas alone is well short of a satisfactory understanding for customers.

"We are really disappointed, but not somewhat surprised, that the cut comes in from the finish of Mar once the rise heating deteriorate is over demonstrating once again the priority of shareholder dividends over business struggling to compensate heating bills."

The cut by Scottish and Southern follows a 7 per cent cut by British Gas at the begin of February, that took force with evident effect.

Mark Todd, executive of the cost some-more aged website energyhelpline.com, said: "Although any cut in domicile appetite prices is welcome, this is prolonged owing and usually a dump in the ocean.

"There should be copiousness some-more gas in the tank at SSE for serve falls and we would urge them to have some-more suggestive cost cuts."

The pointy tumble in indiscriminate gas and physical phenomenon prices usually a small piece of that have been upheld on to business has let suppliers enlarge their enlarge substantially. Ofgem, the industry regulator, calculates that on normal companies are creation �105 in distinction from each patron on an annual basis, up from usually �35 last year.

British Gas last week voiced jot down profits.

Scottish and Southern argued it could not cut prices any serve since the supposed brazen cost the cost for gas in 2011 was higher than it was for 2010. Alistair Phillips-Davies, appetite supply executive of the company, said: "Energy supply is still a severe business, with poignant ceiling cost pressures that run opposite to reductions in indiscriminate costs, but we hold this is a obliged package of measures."