Tenency querey

caleaton90

elsien said:

So what specific reason have UW given your dad for blocking the transfer, when he asks them the direct question?
As an aside talking about reading the landlady the riot act and putting her back in her box is not particularly helpful because a)you don't have a contract with her,  and b) rubbing her up completely the wrong was may well have repercussions for your dad.
It is possible to be both assertive and polite. 

Exactly so it is best to let it slide and let her make her UW commission because even being polite and assertive like I have rubs her up the wrong way and continuing to do that by pressing on with a utility switch could and most probably would result in repercussions for my Dad.

They we’re trying to say that they weren’t the supplier so they hadn’t blocked the move but they were in the process of switching back to them at the landlady’s request as she requested this once her previous tenant did a runner. Apparently the previous supplier was Fisher Energy and Foxglove energy which I believe are the gas and electric divisions of one company, yet when my Dad spoke to someone else at UW they told him that EDF were the previous supplier. The UW agents and the landlady are all as bad as each other as I don’t believe a word that comes out of there mouth.

The landlady is now saying she will get a £200 fine if he leave UW and they will come and remove all the energy saying lamps that are fitted (there is the odd one fitted) also she states my father has had smart meters fitted before he moved in for his gas and electric, all free of charge for his benefit (regardless of them being free anyway). When I corrected her that they weren’t smart meters as smart meters automatically submit the meter readings and that she even had to come and read the meter manually when my father moved in, she reverted back to the usual defence tactic of it’s nothing to do with you and it’s in the TA.

macman

You really are over-complicating this. The only possible hitch to switching supplier is if he has signed up to a UW tariff that has exit fees, so you need to tell us the tariff name, which is on the bill. The LL is talking utter cr*p about being fined if he switches, or about them removing light bulbs, it's pure fantasy.
I can see no way that she can find out he has switched, but, if you are concerned that she might (possibly through loss of commission on her UW account?), then it may well be best to let let sleeping dogs lie, because otherwise she sounds mad enough to serve him with an S21 at the end of his AST just to be spiteful. 
That is a decision only you can help him with.
At the very least, get yourself access to his UW account, either online or as a permitted 3rd party.
Otherwise, as was pointed out back in the 2nd post, such a term in the TA is unenforceable and can be ignored.