Sentences with phrase «fuel poor households»

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.»

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

(Table) Number of fuel poor households nationally 2011.

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.

«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.

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.

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 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.

Not exact matches

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.

According to DECC's most recent annual report on fuel poverty there are 4.5 million fuel - poor households in the UK — this equates to 17 per cent of all UK households.

The UK Fuel Poverty Strategy defines a fuel - poor household as one needing to spend more than 10 % of household income to achieve a satisfactory and healthy heating regFuel Poverty Strategy defines a fuel - poor household as one needing to spend more than 10 % of household income to achieve a satisfactory and healthy heating regfuel - poor household as one needing to spend more than 10 % of household income to achieve a satisfactory and healthy heating regime.

This lack of commitment is further evidenced by the withdrawal of all Treasury funding for energy efficiency programmes from next year in contrast to the Devolved Administrations of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland which will continue to support fuel - poor households through their own Government - funded programmes.»

«The poorest fifth of households spend 3.5 % of their disposable income on fuel duty, while the richest spend 1.8 %.»

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.

[1] From 2013 the Energy Company Obligation will provide annual funding of around # 540 million to assist fuel - poor households; in 2010 - 2011 a combination of Warm Front and Energy Supplier Obligations provided support in the region of # 1.1 billion.

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.

SSE has ring - fenced Energy Company Obligation (ECO) eligible measures targeted at fuel poor and vulnerable households in Cornwall and is a key partner to delivering Warm and Well Cornwall.

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.

«On average, the richest 20 % of households in low and middle income countries capture six times more in total fuel product subsidies (43 %) than the poorest 20 % of households (7 %),» the report says.

Gangopadhyay, S., B. Ramaswami, and W. Wadhwa, 2005: Reducing subsidies on household fuels in India: How will it affect the poor?

Most of the world's deadliest pollution is concentrated in the Third World, largely among poor households which have little or no access to electricity produced by fossil - fuel power.

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.»

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.

Many countries have turned to fossil fuel subsidies at some point or another to reduce energy costs in order to cut transportation bills, prop up industries, or finance household electrification, particularly for the poorest families.