Moving under my bones. it was crispy. for me, definitely, the feeling to go and to have the connection with a wave like that was amazing. glassy conditions, sunny, glassy, all day long, huge. yeah, everything together made the best wave trip for me, yeah. incredible and amazing, that s my analysis. that is to show you what we ve got on line in terms of our business coverage, we ll be looking at and a moment in terms of business news, but one of the stories we mentioned, energy firms to be investigated by the industry regulator ofgem following a sharp rise in the number of households being forced onto prepayment metres. energy firms are not taking due care when it comes to vulnerable households which of course is a big story
Suppliers now to step up and stop this harmful practice. if they don t, the government and the regulator must step in with stronger action. we would also like to see more protections for people who are already on prepayment metres and struggling to keep them topped up. the government is calling on energy suppliers to keep their focus on supporting customers and move away from force fitting prepayment metres. the uk steel industry, which supports thousands ofjobs, is a whisker away from collapse according to the unite union. the union has written to the business secretary calling for an urgent meeting after accusing the government of taking little action to support the sector. the government said the success of the steel industry is a priority. investigators have seized more classified documents from presidentjoe biden s home in the us state of delaware. the files were found in a search of the property by officials from the justice department. an investigator is already looking into the
Isjust the tunnel forjust anybody, and it isjust absolutely the tunnel forjust anybody, and it is just absolutely diabolical that we should have to live like this. there we should have to live like this. there are we should have to live like this. there are many cases where people have been forced onto prepayment metres. the business secretary, grant shapps, has today described practice as harmful and says it must stop. he has written to energy suppliers asking them to voluntarily commit to stop forcing customers onto prepayment metres. he wants them to make greater efforts to help customers who have difficulty paying, and he has asked the players to provide a number of warrants they have applied for in recent months, which i needed to enter your home and physically install a prepayment metre. the charity citizens advice estimates that 3.2 million people in britain ran out of credit on their prepayment metre last year, the equivalent of one every ten seconds. we have seen some rea
And those on prepayment metres are topping up in advance of using energy, the argument for them is they can help with budgeting but of course, if people run out of credit, can t afford to top up, they can t heat their homes. they can t eat and obviously at a point where all our energy bills are so higher, that s a particular problem at the moment. as we heard there, citizens advice saying 3 million people running out of credit last year, but not necessarily all of them being forced onto prepayment metres. it is also more expensive option when it comes to each unit of electricity. so we are seeing here, labour s shadow climate secretary ed miliband writing to the energy secretary grant shapps saying that over this winter. this be no forced installation of prepaid metres, they cause misery and another labour policy is that people on prepaid
Metres should be paying the same as those on direct debits. we ve heard from the uk government, they are pointing out they have put billions of pounds of support over this winter. into helping everyone with their energy bills, with a particular focus on extra payments for vulnerable households. the uk government spokesperson said suppliers should only be installing prepaid metres as an absolute last resort if they don t have the consent of the person getting them to deal with recovering debt and there should be options that are gone through from energy supplies before that happens, including potentially supporting people with emergency credit. potentially supporting people with emergency credit. david, thank you very much- emergency credit. david, thank you very much- in emergency credit. david, thank you very much. in about emergency credit. david, thank you very much. in about 20 emergency credit. david, thank you very much. in about 20 minutes, i emergency credit. david, th