Sentences with phrase «fuel poor»

(Table) Number of fuel poor households nationally 2011.

The statistics also show that the poorest continue to live in the worst homes with the depth and likelihood of being fuel poor increasing markedly with lower levels of energy efficiency.

But if we're still feeling generous, perhaps we could give some extra relief to the remaining fuel poor.

The UK's leading fuel poverty charity National Energy Action (NEA) has today welcomed Energy Minster Chris Huhne's pledge that the needs of fuel poor households will be prioritised in the proposed Green Deal, due to be launched next year.

Improving the homes of all low income households, rather than «LIHC fuel poor», households is required as it helps overcome the difficulty of «churn» arising from the relative Low Income High Cost (LIHC) definition and make the delivery and targeting of programmes much more straightforward.

The effect of this practice is intrinsically regressive since it takes no account of ability to pay and, perversely, can result in additional households becoming fuel poor.

The ads fueled a poor favorable rating that he never quite recovered from.

These negative thoughts fuel poor performance in the athletic world, but if we can weave in periods of mental pausing before we walk onto the court or go on a run, we can create space to align with intentions and stay positive.

Current annual spending on energy efficiency improvements in fuel poor homes in England is circa # 490m, a proportion of the GB wide Energy Company Obligation (ECO) programme.

Joan Ruddock: The most recently published estimate of fuel poverty shows that there were around 3.5 million fuel poor households living in the UK in 2006.»

The Government needs to act urgently and we are calling on Gordon Brown, who only recently pledged to ensure that he will do everything to eradicate fuel poverty, to use the additional VAT receipts he will receive from the price increases and direct them into energy efficiency schemes for the fuel poor.»

As part of the Policy and Research Directorate, the team supports NEA as the expert voice on behalf of the fuel poor through the provision of evidence and insights to help the charity achieve its vision of no - one living in fuel poverty.

Those who are fuel poor are often more generally poor.

The north west has more than 150 thousand families who're classed as fuel poor.

«NEA will work with its members and partners across the country in coming weeks to ensure the voices of the fuel poor are heard through the consultation period on the Government's Fuel Poverty Strategy and to ensure the policies and programmes that underpin it are properly resourced and are deliverable.

The average SAP rating in 2012 for fuel poor households in England is E with well over a million fuel poor households in this band alone.

The new targets, set out in a statutory instrument tabled today in Parliament, require that all fuel poor households must be bought up to a minimum of EPC band C by 2030 with interim targets of a minimum of EPC band E by 2020 and D by 2025.

«Whilst we applaud the Government's commitment to address the least energy efficient properties by 2020, there is a significant risk that over a million fuel poor households will continue to live in hard to heat homes by 2025 and the # 1billion savings on bills will not be achieved.

A transformative programme of housing improvements is needed to get the job done far quicker and a commitment to additional and adequate resources to guarantee we do not leave the majority of the fuel poor households still living in expensive - to - heat homes, over the next five to ten years.

This edition of the Fuel Poverty Monitor makes it clear that the needs of the fuel poor are lagging well behind in this priority list.»

People fear shareholder interests are being put in front of the needs of families and the fuel poor.

Northern Ireland experiences the highest incidence of fuel poverty in the UK with 44 % of all households being fuel poor.

Some on the right wants us to turn our back on our social and environmental responsibilities by axing programs to help the fuel poor and boost green energy.

Cutting energy bills by scrapping outright social and green levies punishes the fuel poor and punishes the future generations who will confront the full force of climate change.

However, a crucial fact is that only 18 % of households in receipt of the Winter Fuel Payment are classified as «fuel poor» - i.e. spending more than 10 % of their income on energy and therefore most likely to struggling to heat their homes.

Moreover, 49 % of all fuel poor households receive no Winter Fuel Payment, as they are not pensioner households.

The most recent Government statistics illustrate that in 2010, 3.5 million households in England were fuel poor, equivalent to 16.4 per of all households.

Around 2.8 million of these fuel poor households were vulnerable, which represents around 18.1 per cent of all vulnerable households in England.

Dale clarified it in another post when he said that ``... the FIT itself is funded by energy bills — so it's a subsidy from all users to a few — that's OK if it all goes to the fuel poor as you describe — but in practice a lot of it (most of it) goes to the fuel rich — increasing the bills of the fuel poor.

Let's take the easiest claim to deal with first — that the fuel poor will be # 200 a year better off as a result of their homes being made more efficient.

We've reduced the average electricity bill by # 276.8 for everyone, not just the fuel poor.

«The introduction of the carbon tax on fuel costs in 2010 has further exacerbated the health and monetary problems for the fuel poor,» said Energy Action general manager Charles Roarty.

At a time when 6.59 million households in the UK are considered «fuel poor» (spending more than 10 % of household income on heating), paying power companies to burn wood is a disastrous waste of money.