The Government has pledged to prevent energy firms waiting almost three months after hiking prices before notifying households, if the regulator fails to.
The Government says 70,000 households in England can still ditch their old boiler and get up to £400 towards a new appliance under its boiler scrappage scheme.
A new scheme to show consumers if "green" electricity tariffs from energy suppliers are really delivering environmental benefits has been launched today.
The energy regulator Ofgem has today introduced a trio of measures intended to offer greater consumer protection, including tougher new rules on the way direct debits (DD) are set.