Glaswegian Defies Legal Threats to Shame ScottishPower

LONDON, March 20, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --

In a David and Goliath style encounter, one Glaswegian company director has taken on the might of one of the country's biggest energy providers.

Alan Campbell was so outraged when ScottishPower refused to pay back £75 million to some 625,000 customers that he has set up a major campaign to ask them "when they are going to give the money back?"

Alan has spearheaded the issue, which has seen an all-party political group form to put pressure on the energy giant. Alan, and the group of MPs, are calling on the Government to re-open the case against ScottishPower in light of the findings by two firms of liquidators. Mr. Campbell has also opened a national petition and established a website to encourage consumers to form their own view based on the evidence.

"ScottishPower is a multi-billion pound company, and yet they have refused to return monies that are owed to some of the very poorest in society." said Alan Campbell.

The issue came to light in 2011, when Mr. Campbell was assisting the liquidator of PowerPlan Company Ltd's (PPCL) investigation into the responsibility for the failure of ScottishPower's cashback warranty scheme.  The cashback warranty applied when people purchased ScottishPower products, like fridges or cookers. At this point they were offered a 100% cash-back warranty, and so long as they didn't claim against the warranty, they were assured by ScottishPower sales staff, in ScottishPower stores, that they would receive 100% of their money back.

However, according to Mr Campbell, the reports of the liquidators illustrate ScottishPower's dishonesty from 2003/4 right up to the present day.

"I was appalled at the newly discovered evidence from ScottishPower's own files" said Mr Campbell. "I want to bring the liquidators evidence into the public domain, so that people can see that ScottishPower acted dishonestly and mis-sold cashback."

"But most of all, I want to help people to get their money back and for the authorities to bring those personally responsible to account."    

The website http://www.ScottishPowerBrokenPromises.co.uk and a national advertising campaign alerting consumers to the scandal, launches today (Friday 20 March 2015).

MP for Liverpool Walton and Co-Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on ScottishPower's Cashback Mis-Selling, Steve Rotheram, added: "The people of Merseyside have been left over £3m out of pocket, not to mention the £75m owed to 625,000 nationally.

"I look forward to working with the APPG on ScottishPower Cashback Mis-selling to get to the bottom of the issue." 

Responses will be posted on the website, and reports, letters and documentation are all available to read online at: http://www.ScottishPowerBrokenPromises.co.uk

Twitter: @SPBrokenPromise

Facebook: ScottishPower Broken Promises

The all-party parliamentary group includes:

   
    Andrew Percy MP            Brigg and Goole          Conservative
    Gerry Sutcliffe MP         Bradford South           Labour
    Steve Rotheram MP          Liverpool, Walton        Labour
    Jason McCartney MP         Colne Valley             Conservative
    Graham Brady MP            Altrincham and Sale West Conservative
    Mark Garnier MP            Wyre Forest              Conservative
    Heather Wheeler MP         South Derbyshire         Conservative
    Jessica Lee MP             Erewash                  Conservative
    Jeremy Lefroy MP           Stafford                 Conservative
    Caroline Lucas MP          Brighton Pavilion        Green
    Derick Twigg MP            Halton                   Labour
    Bill Esterson MP           Sefton Central           Labour
    David Anderson MP          Blaydon                  Labour
    John Leech MP              Manchester, Withington   Lib Dem
    Lord Cotter                                         Lib Dem
    Gordon Birtwistle MP       Burnley                  Lib Dem
    Stewart Hosie MP           Dundee East              SNP
    Virendra Sharma MP         Ealing Southall          Labour
    Rosie Cooper MP            West Lancashire          Labour
    Tom Harris MP              Glasgow South West       Labour

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Notes to Editors 

Alan Campbell is a former director at PowerPlan Company Ltd, and as such knows the issue intimately.

Letters have this week been sent out to tens of thousands of consumers, across the UK, who lost out on ScottishPower's mis-sold cashback.