11. Plaid Cymru Debate: Cost of living

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 5:24 pm on 21 September 2022.

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Photo of Mike Hedges Mike Hedges Labour 5:24, 21 September 2022

Would you also agree that probably the thing that's easiest to do and needs to be done immediately is to end standing charges? People are putting £10, which they've taken a week to save up, into the meter, to find out that a quarter to a third of it has already been eaten up by standing charges when they weren't using the energy. That's simple. It shouldn't have to cost the Government anything. They could add it to the cost of energy, but that would help poor people more than anything else.