Sentences with phrase «fuel poverty figures»

Labour MP, Jonathan Reynolds commented: «The UK's fuel poverty figures are shameful.

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The Government has put in place legislation which requires any future Government to reach this first goal however this analysis and subsequent figures from Policy Exchange's report: Warmer Homes — Improving fuel poverty and energy efficiency policy in the UK highlights current resources are less than half of what is required to meet this target, let alone a more ambitious timeframe.

But it's still nowhere near the figures they are projecting, I think, for this,» he said, noting the 29 % reduction from fuel poverty spending by the Association for the Conservation of Energy's data.

The Government's figures on fuel poverty only go as far as 2006, and they show that 3.5 million households were in fuel poverty then, compared to 1.8 million in 2005.

In response to official Government figures published today showing that 3.5 million households in England were in fuel poverty in 2010, National Energy Action's Chief Executive, Jenny Saunders, commented:

Welsh Liberal Democrat Social Justice spokesperson, Peter Black AM, has called on Welsh Labour Government to do more to tackle fuel poverty after figures have shown that there were 640 more «excess winter deaths» last year compared to the previous year.

Exclusive: Figure rises from a fifth of homes last year, meaning coalition will fail to meet its legal duty to end fuel poverty by 2016

On the cost issue, some of the media have been getting increasingly shrill: «Subsidies paid to windpower companies are forcing up to 50,000 households a year into fuel poverty», claimed the Sunday Times in June, using figures from a House of Commons Library paper.

We now see nearly double the figures for fuel poverty quoted by FoE in 2008.

An interim independent report predicts that 2,700 people will die this winter as a consequence of fuel poverty, a figure greater than the number killed in traffic accidents each year.