Written Question·Department for Business and Trade·UIN 73548
Telecommunications: Prices
Tabled: 29 August 2025
Answered: 11 September 2025
Question
Dan Aldridge
Labour — Weston-super-Mare
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking with regulators to help tackle (a) the use of inflation linked price rises in consumer communications contracts and (b) the advertising of VAT exclusive prices.
Answer
Kate DeardenOfcom, the independent regulator of telecommunications, has banned inflation-linked in-contract price rises. Since 17 January 2025, all retail telecom providers have been required to set out clearly ‘in pounds and pence’ the price the consumer will pay at...
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