The 2013 annual fuel poverty report for England was released last week.
The report analyses data from English Housing Survey to measure the impact of fuel poverty in England.
A combination of rising incomes and energy efficiency improvements in low income households has seen a decrease in the fuel poverty gap from £909 million in 2012 to £877 million in 2012, with an overall reduction of £32 million. There has also been an improvement in fuel poverty levels in England from 2.36 million in 2012 to 2.35 million in 2013.
These improvements are encouraging because they show that we are moving in the right direction and that by helping low income households improve their energy efficiency we can make a real difference in helping to keep their bills down.
To download the report, go to the government website.
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Reblogged this on The Northants Green Party Blog and commented:
Baby steps in the right direction to address fuel poverty…
Dear Hornett
Do remember that about the only thing the 2010-2015 UK Government did regarding fuel poverty was to alter the definition concerning which households it appliedto. Which conveniently removed well over a million families from ” qualifying”.
And they also repealed the legislation passed back in 2000, that there was a statutory duty placed upon whomever was in Government in 2016 to ensure that there were NO households at all in fuel poverty in 2016.
So I am not sure that I would recommend spending much time celebrating any “progress”,whether baby steps or no!