Gavin Newlands – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Energy and Climate Change

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Gavin Newlands on 2015-12-17.

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what steps she is taking to reduce the level of fuel poverty.

Amber Rudd

A reformed domestic supplier obligation (ECO) from April 2017, which will run for 5 years, will upgrade the energy efficiency of over 200,000 homes per year tackling the root cause of fuel poverty. Our extension of the Warm Home Discount to 2020/21 at current levels of £320m per annum will also help vulnerable households with their energy bills.

We intend to focus our efforts through ECO and the Warm Home Discount more effectively on the fuel poor, and will be consulting on our future approach in the spring.