Speeches by Crichton.
Every Hansard contribution by Torcuil Crichton this parliament, most recent first. Back to the MP page for the headline figures and analysed positions.
Showing 501–520 of 1,093 contributions · most-recent first
| Date | Debate & contribution | Words |
|---|---|---|
| 25 Jun 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 736) “You mentioned that it costs them to go to the ombudsman and also it costs their reputation. Why do you not just name and shame the ones who do not comply?” | 31 |
| 25 Jun 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 736) “It is a massive industry to regulate. Does Ofgem need a bigger stick?” | 13 |
| 25 Jun 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 736) “Is there any way to make suppliers behave properly to resolve customer disputes and make sure that the customer comes first?” | 21 |
| 25 Jun 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 736) “Thank you all for coming in. To get back to something you said to Melanie Onn, Ed, about the escalating series of penalties, you have to help me out. Suppliers are legally bound to implement your remedies within 28 days but some of them do not. What percentage do not, and can you tell me again what the escalating scale…” | 63 |
| 25 Jun 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 736) “Beth, Jonathan, how can you help them?” | 7 |
| 25 Jun 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 736) “You mentioned that it costs them to go to the ombudsman and also it costs their reputation. Why do you not just name and shame the ones who do not comply?” | 31 |
| 25 Jun 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 736) “Thank you all for coming in. To get back to something you said to Melanie Onn, Ed, about the escalating series of penalties, you have to help me out. Suppliers are legally bound to implement your remedies within 28 days but some of them do not. What percentage do not, and can you tell me again what the escalating scale…” | 63 |
| 25 Jun 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 736) “Dr Roy, I have no wish for you to be sitting in the stocks but you are the only company on the panel now. We have been told in evidence that the ombudsman’s own metrics show that the resolution involves small payments to customers, payable by the suppliers. Somebody described it to us as a sausage machine designed to g…” | 73 |
| 25 Jun 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 736) “If you had to score the ombudsman on a one to 10 scale, where one means it is no good and 10 means it is the consumer champion of the world—” | 31 |
| 25 Jun 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 736) “What surprised me when we started reading into this is that the ombudsman is funded by the very companies it rules on. There is quite a high level of low-cost resolution, which saves the companies money and saves the ombudsman hassle, I guess, when it has only 380 staff to deal with a large number of complaints. Are co…” | 78 |
| 25 Jun 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 736) “Katie, it is surprising that it is not on a statutory footing. How does the protection of energy consumers through the ombudsman compare with other areas?” | 26 |
| 25 Jun 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 736) “Would you support what Katie, or Katie’s organisation, has said about putting the ombudsman on a statutory basis?” | 18 |
| 25 Jun 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 736) “Thank you all for coming in. I will pick up on what Katie mentioned about the ombudsman and the structure of the ombudsman. I will do that with you first, Alex. First of all, thank you for the work citizens advice bureaux do throughout the land. They have great services and they deal with the nightmare of overbilling, …” | 136 |
| 25 Jun 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 736) “It is a massive industry to regulate. Does Ofgem need a bigger stick?” | 13 |
| 25 Jun 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 736) “Is there any way to make suppliers behave properly to resolve customer disputes and make sure that the customer comes first?” | 21 |
| 25 Jun 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 736) “Ed, Jonathan, naming names or without naming names, do you have repeat offenders? Is there any evidence that some suppliers just do not listen to you and do not remedy?” | 30 |
| 25 Jun 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 736) “Do you have any powers that you can use to make sure that suppliers do what the ombudsman wants them to do?” | 22 |
| 24 Jun 2025 | Haemochromatosis Screening “The hon. Gentleman’s interventions are always a blessing, never a curse. I have some information of particular interest to his part of the world later in my speech. I have declared my interest, as I have haemochromatosis, but it is not just my experience, but that of my constituents and the make-up of my constituency i…” healtheconomy-jobs | 429 |
| 24 Jun 2025 | Haemochromatosis Screening “I ought to begin with an explanation of what is a very long word. Put simply, haemochromatosis is too much iron in the blood—haemo, blood; chroma, iron; and tosis, too much of it. To save time and the good offices of Hansard, I will refer to it occasionally as HCT in this debate. It is an inherited genetic condition, a…” healtheconomy-jobs | 268 |
| 24 Jun 2025 | Haemochromatosis Screening “My hon. Friend anticipates much of the remainder of my argument. As I said, the research and DNA testing in the islands could and should be paid for by community funds from large-scale renewable projects, just as similar screening projects proposed for Orkney and Shetland could be paid for by funding from wind farms th…” healtheconomy-jobs | 282 |