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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Claudia Savage

Energy bill support will be ‘eaten up’ by price cap increase, Tories claim

Government support to help with rising energy bills will be “immediately eaten up by the increase in the energy price cap”, the Tories have claimed.

Shadow energy minister Andrew Bowie said the Government’s response to Ofgem’s rise in the energy cap is “a sticking plaster approach” to increasing energy bills.

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