Ministers should cut VAT on repairs for electrical goods and green home improvements, to help people reduce greenhouse gas emissions in their everyday lives, an influential committee of MPs has urged. Funding for green home grants to install insulation and low-carbon heating, should also be restored to kickstart a “green recovery” in the UK, said…
Millions of British Gas customers will be asked to pay almost £100 a year more for their gas and electricity after the regulator lifted its cap on energy bills. The UK’s biggest energy supplier confirmed that it would raise the price of its standard variable energy tariff by £97 a year, less than a fortnight…
If job interviews are awkward and nerve-racking at the best of times, this is magnified by the prospect of having to do it from a corner of your home on screen, while hoping your children or pets don’t put in an appearance. Unfortunately, the pandemic has made interviewing for a job via the internet an…
Can you please ask the Competition and Markets Authority what it actually is doing to check that Lastminute.com is refunding its customers, because I, and many others, are still waiting. In December it said Lastminute had undertaken to refund £7m owed to more than 9,000 customers following cancelled trips. It set a deadline of 31…
The government should force banks to let customers block all betting transactions, according to proposals led by the online lender Monzo, which wants gambling firms to hand over data to make sure the system is watertight. In a letter to the sports minister, Nigel Huddleston, who is leading a landmark review of gambling law, Monzo,…
Q If my brother and father own a house and my father dies, what happens to his share?KI A Thank you for such a succinct question to which there is not such a succinct answer. A lot depends on how your brother and father own the property. If they are what are called joint tenants,…
