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Fuel companies should be banned from disconnecting supplies unless they do more to protect vulnerable customers, say MPs.

In a report, the House of Commons trade and industry select committee calls for companies to give more support to poorer customers to prevent the need for disconnection. Failure to do so should result in legislation banning disconnections of domestic fuel supplies.

It follows the high-profile case in 2003 of a pensioner couple who died after having their fuel supplies cut off, and evidence of people being disconnected because of a failure to identify them as vulnerable.

• Report from www.parliament.uk