Claire Coutinho

Claire Coutinho

Conservative — East Surrey

Speaking in the House of Commons on 6 January 2026

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It is freezing cold outside, and people are worried about their energy bills, yet on top of all the other costs the Secretary of State has lumped on to people’s bills, it is reported that he is about to tax people with gas boilers to pay for people having heat pumps. Can he definitively rule this out for the rest of this Parliament: no new taxes on people heating their homes?

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