bledd, like you I started off with QiQ and whilst their support and response times to my emails were brilliant I felt that £30 a year was too much for what I needed. I moved my website to Vidahost and loved them so much I now host two work related websites with Vidahost as well. I particularly like their 50% discount for charities and schools which we can use on both of the websites being as I work in a school.
So if they are still charging £30 a year but reducing the bandwidth and storage they are obviously trying to get you to move up the packages and pay them more!