"The street has now been shut and the electricity and
gas cut."
The British
Gas cut will take effect on March 16, while EDF is reducing its prices on March 24.
Only British
Gas cut bills, by five per cent, in August.
But the Scottish
Gas cut doesn't come in until the worst of the cold weather is likely to have passed.
Mark Todd of Energyhelpline said: "If British
Gas cut bills the others will follow."
They claimed that extreme
gas cut off is being carried out since two months due to which their children are going to school without having anything to eat.
The minister said the
gas cut costs Jordan about $3 million per day, with the country resorting to more expensive heavy fuel and diesel.
Four days a week of gas load shedding had already crippled industrial activities in Punjab, while additional
gas cut would completely halt economic activities and badly hit Pakistan's export performance.
British
Gas cut bills for more than five million customers by making an instant average cut of 5% in its standard electricity tariff.