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Cap or abolish standing charges on Gas and electric for 1 year.

Submitted on Wednesday 5th July 2023

Rejected on Monday 10th July 2023

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

Cap or abolish standing charges on Gas and electric for 1 year.

Petition Details

Please could the government cap or abolish the standing charges on electric on gas to help with cost of living.

Additional Information

The Standing charge on electric and gas is essentially a cost for connection of gas and electric and while the wholesale market has gone down standing charges are going up.
Please could the government work with energy sector to either set one rate for electric and one for gas and freeze that rate for 1 year to help with the cost of living or abolish the standing charge all together.


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This petition was rejected

The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

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You may wish to sign this petition which calls for a similar action: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/635530

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