Sentences with phrase «fuel poor homes»

For infants, living in fuel poor homes is associated with a 30 % greater risk of admission to hospital or primary care facilities.

For children, fuel poor homes are associated with a significantly greater risk of respiratory problems and inadequate nutritional intake.

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.

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We should also have a massive program for retrofitting the homes of the poor so that rising fuel prices can be countered by reduced energy needs.

Man United's desire to bring in further signings may well be fueled by two poor displays, Sunday's draw at Sunderland marginally more impressive than their opening day defeat at home to Swansea City, and top of the pile could well be a «Marquee» deal that would break the British transfer record by some distance.

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.

One in ten UK households are living in fuel poverty, one in five of which are pensioners; and at least # 1 for every # 4 spent on heating UK homes is wasted due to poor insulation.

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.

«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.

National Energy Action (NEA) welcomed the Government's statement to Parliament today which will save the poorest households # 1 billion a year on their fuel bills by setting legal targets to make their homes more energy efficient but calls on the Government to move more quickly to achieve their targets.

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 hoFuel 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 hofuel poor» - i.e. spending more than 10 % of their income on energy and therefore most likely to struggling to heat their homes.

Around 36,000 homes in Cornwall are in fuel poverty, with Cornwall in the top 10 of fuel poor areas in the country.

Those countries are poor in fossil fuel reserves but home to vast forests, which they harvest and burn for heating and electricity.

Fossil fuel divestment is a way to care for our common home and the poorest of our brothers and sisters, who suffer the worst impacts of climate change.

For example a chunk of the extra cost on domestic fuel bills is to fund energy saving measures (home insulation etc), which does have a (small) impact on emissions but is mainly aimed at cutting fuel bills for the poorest.

Putting aside concerns about some of the assumptions in Deap — for instance assuming air permeability of homes without airtightness test results, when the evidence indicates that homes built in the second half of the 20th century may be much leakier than pre-war homes — HPAI's SEAI liaison officer John O'Shaughnessy said: «Deap is the preferred tool of the department and has proven to work on a lot of social and fuel poor energy upgrades in the past.»

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.»