Grant Shapps 'very concerned' about prepayment meters scandal and orders officials to act

Wednesday's front page: Stop forcing families on to prepay meters, Shapps warns TomorrowsPapersToday Latest by deankirby_:

Ed Miliband, Labour’s shadow climate change secretary, who has also written to Mr Shapps, repeated the Party’s call for a ban on forced installations, warning there was a “national scandal” of millions of people who were being disconnected from light and heat.

“Suppliers must follow strict rules when installing prepayment meters and need to have exhausted all other options, particularly when a warrant is required to enter a vulnerable customer’s home.”Nikolett Toth, a single mother living in Ealing, west London, had a prepayment meter forcibly installed in her home when she was at work in August last year.

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