PARLIAMENTARY EARLY DAY MOTION
British Gas and Pensioners (26 January 1990)

That this House strongly condemns British Gas, who used the courts and a legal technicality to force Mr Quigley, a Coventry pensioner of 8 Loach Drive, Alderman's Green, to pay British Gas ú494.49, when Mr Quigley's fair share of the total fuel cost of three British Gas customers with a common tenancy was only ú164.83; in view of this, requests the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry to investigate this dubious practice which is an issue of serious concern; calls on the Chairman of British Gas to recognise that the use of the courts to extract huge sums of money from a pensioner's limited income is immoral; and further calls for him to take steps to recompense Mr Quigley for the sum of money paid to British Gas in excess of ú164.83.

Sponsored by:
John Hughes (Labour)