Sentences with phrase «fuel poverty bill»

Shadow Energy Minister Charles Hendry spoke in the House of Commons on Friday on Liberal Democrat MP David Heath's Fuel Poverty Bill.

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As temperatures plummet, fuel poverty charity NEA is urging the Government to step back from ending insulation and heating grants for vulnerable people struggling to afford their energy bills.

While many schemes supported through these levies make a valuable contribution to meeting Government targets to save energy, reduce emissions, and tackle fuel poverty and climate change the latest Government estimate indicated that they currently account for 4 % of a typical gas bill and up to 10 % of a typical electricity bill.

In an intervention, the Minister said that she was concerned that the Bill advanced an «absolutist position», yet the Government's target was to abolish all fuel poverty by 22 November 2016.

We all broadly welcome the Bill's objectives, and I think we can also all agree that fuel poverty has generally been getting worse over recent years and that home energy efficiency in this country is nothing like good enough.

«The health and wellbeing of thousands of very vulnerable households is being put at risk, and we urge the Government to urgently bring forward a new fuel poverty and energy efficiency programme funded through the VAT and other taxes the Government receives from energy bills and the energy sector.»

Adding levies to consumer energy bills is regressive, because it hurts the poor more than the rich, fuel poverty campaigners say.

This would increase fuel poverty for families and pensioners whilst, in contrast to Miliband's energy price - freeze, make a negligible difference on soaring bills.

The Government defines «fuel poverty» as spending a tenth of your income on heating bills.

Since then energy bills have soared and the Government estimated that approximately 4 million households in England are now estimated to be living in fuel poverty, unable to heat their homes to the level needed for their comfort and wellbeing.

«Fuel poverty» among low - income families has increased, testifying to life on a low - income with rising bills and an inadequate everyday standard of living.

1 - Pledge to reduce or remove VAT from domestic fuel bills as I think this would have mass political appeal and show real concern for people experiencing fuel poverty.

«They are really keen to drive this quality across our wider programme to help address important issues such as fuel poverty, high bills, indoor air quality and health.

There is ample evidence in the UK of increasing fuel poverty (i.e., household spending over 10 % of disposable income keeping warm in winter) in the regions of wind farm deployment where higher electricity bills are needed to cover the rent of the land (from usually already rich) landowners, a direct reversal of the process whereby cheap energy over the last century has lifted a significant fraction of the world's poor from their poverty.

The category of «fuel poverty» that will include 9 million households in just a year's time would be reduced substantially, were energy bills more affordable.

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England, for example, is rethinking wind farms because they are much more costly than fossil fuels, and even created something they call «fuel poverty» — people who can't afford their power bills.

The average annual bill has doubled in the past five years to # 1,340, pushing one in five homes into fuel poverty.

And there's no reason to beleive that, given the recent increases in UK energy bills, there are fewer households in fuel poverty today than in 2009.

Friends of the Earth had succeeded in drafting and helping a bill through parliament, but had failed to hold the government to its promises to eradicate fuel poverty.

Debate surrounds the extent to which the Climate Change Act has driven the rise in cost of fuel bills, and is thus responsible for the rise in fuel poverty.

It's inconceivable that FoE were unaware that this «Big Ask» wouldn't result in bigger energy bills, because it ran concurrent — though much lower profile — campaigns against fuel poverty:

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The report states: «The government is also under pressure to curb rising energy bills with 2.3 million of Britain's 27 million households deemed fuel poor, meaning the cost of heating their homes leaves them with income below the poverty line.»