The Committee on Fuel Poverty is delighted to welcome 2 new
members to the Committee, Professor Richard Fitton, and Ross
Armstrong. Following the departure of Anu Singh and Liz Bissett
at the end of their terms, Richard and Ross have joined for a
3-year term of service, beginning on 16 February 2026.
The Committee on Fuel Poverty is an Expert Advisory Committee
which advises on the effectiveness of policies aimed at reducing
fuel poverty, encourages greater co-ordination across the
organisations working to reduce fuel poverty, and monitoring the
government's progress on its Fuel Poverty Strategy.
The Committee also conducts annual research, with the current
project focusing on the lived experience of fuel poor homes which
have a heat pump.
The Committee would also like to thank Anu Singh and Liz Bissett
for their service to the Committee over their terms.
BiographiesProfessor Richard
Fitton
Professor Richard Fitton (PhD, FRICS)
is Technical Director of the Energy House 2.0 project, a
world-leading building physics test laboratory at the University
of Salford. A Chartered Building Surveyor and Fellow of the
RICS, he holds
a PhD in Building
Physics and has authored over 80 publications on building energy
performance and measurement. He leads an international task group
developing standards for energy performance assessment. He is
Chair of the British Standard for Retrofit Assessment and serves
on the SAPScientific Integrity
Group at BRE, which oversees the
UK's domestic energy model. He is also a panel member of the
RICS
Professional Group for residential property and leads an
International Energy Agency Annex on the use of smart meter data
to provide energy efficiency metrics in dwellings.
Ross Armstrong
Ross Armstrong is the Chief Executive of Warmworks. Having led
the organisation since its founding in 2015, he and the Warmworks
team have ensured that more than 50,000 households are warmer,
happier and healthier by providing end-to-end assessment,
installation and quality inspections of a wide range of heating,
insulation and energy efficiency improvements. With more than 20
years' experience of managing fuel poverty programmes across the
UK within both the public and private sector, Ross understands
the lived experience of the most vulnerable fuel poor homes and
families and will bring his knowledge and expertise on how policy
is delivered on the ground to the Committee.
