Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Anne McLaughlin and Kwasi Kwarteng

Tuesday 15th December 2020 Commons Chamber

[Anne McLaughlin (Glasgow North East) (SNP)]

What steps his Department is taking to support people who were mis-sold a Green Deal loan more than six years ago.

[The Minister for Business, Energy and Clean Growth (Kwasi Kwarteng)]

The hon. Lady will be aware that too many people have suffered from mis-selling by a small number of green deal providers. We are doing all we can to provide redress where appropriate, as enabled by the green deal regulations.

[Anne McLaughlin [V]]

If someone is mis-sold something, there is a six-year time bar to get redress, unless they were not aware of it at the time, in which case they have three more years from when they became aware. There is a significant number of victims of green deal mis-selling, many of whom were very elderly and thought they must have misunderstood, but they did not; they were duped. Why are they, after all they have been through, being denied that extra three-year rule and access to justice?

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Anne McLaughlin and Kwasi Kwarteng

Tuesday 10th November 2020 Commons Chamber

[Anne McLaughlin (Glasgow North East) (SNP) [V]]

Four weeks ago, the Prime Minister agreed with me when he said this about the green deal mis-selling scandal:“We must accelerate the process by which these complaints are upheld…and compensation is delivered”—[Official Report, 14 October 2020; Vol. 682, c. 372.]I have three constituents who have died waiting. I do not want this to be political and I do not care who gets the credit when it is all resolved; I just want it sorted out. So will the Secretary of State please meet the all-party parliamentary group on green deal mis-selling as a matter of urgency and work with us to find a way forward?

[Kwasi Kwarteng]

I thank the hon. Lady for raising this. Obviously, this is a critical issue. We are working through the cases as expeditiously as we can. I am happy to meet the APPG in my capacity as Energy Minister and resolve what has been a difficult issue—I do not deny that.