Responding to the highest fuel poverty figures on record
since 1996, MP, Shadow Secretary
of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
said:
“These shocking fuel poverty figures are the highest on
record since 1996. During the election campaign promised an energy price cap,
but now it’s nowhere to be seen. Dither and delay from this weak
and wobbly government won’t return bill payers the
£2 billion the Competition Markets Authority says they’re
being overcharged.
“Meeting the Conservatives' fuel poverty targets written in their
manifesto would require ‘roughly doubling’ the funding provided,
as pointed out by the Government’s own Committee on Climate
Change.
“Austerity has failed and has shown herself to be too
weak to deliver. Labour stands ready with a plan to reduce bills
and alleviate fuel poverty.”
ENDS
Notes to Editors:
- 1. Labour's
manifesto offer included:
- A
cap preventing the average domestic energy bill from exceeding
£1,000
- Measures
to take energy back into public ownership to deliver cheaper
bills
- The
insulation of four million homes as an infrastructure priority
- Interest
free loans for homeowners to improve their property
- Improved
Landlord Energy Efficiency regulations
- The
re-establishments of the Landlord Energy Saving Allowance
- 2. The Committee on
Climate Change quote is from page 8 of their 2017 report Energy
Prices and Bills: https://www.theccc.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Energy-Prices-and-Bills-Committee-on-Climate-Change-March-2017.pdf
- 3. New fuel poverty
figures out today suggest the number of households in fuel
poverty in England alone has risen to 2.50 million - he highest
number on record since 1996:
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/623108/Fuel_Poverty_Statistics_Report_2017.pdf
