U.K. Seeks Study Into Making Energy-Market Manipulation a Crime

The U.K. sought to calm voter anger over inflation-busting energy prices by studying whether to make market manipulation a criminal instead of a civil offense.

The government also asked regulator Ofgem to report in the Spring on how to increase the information that suppliers give in financial accounts, around the same period as an annual review reports on competition, Energy Secretary Ed Davey said today.