Fiona Mactaggart – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Energy and Climate Change

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Fiona Mactaggart on 2014-06-16.

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many households with a below-average income have received support for comprehensive insulation of their homes in the last year.

Gregory Barker

The Coalition Government is committed to fighting fuel poverty through the installation of robust energy efficiency measures.

Statistics published this morning show that from the start of 2013 to the end of April 2014, 394,000 low-income and vulnerable consumers, or households in specified areas of low income, had benefitted from energy efficiency measures being installed under the new Energy Company Obligation.