Sentences with phrase «fuel poverty strategy»

The passage of the Warm Homes and Energy Conservation Act 2000, supported by the UK Fuel Poverty Strategy 2001, requires the Government to seek to end to fuel poverty for all households by 2016 (2018 in Wales).

Ron Campbell, Chief Policy and Research Analyst for National Energy Action said: «The original UK Fuel Poverty Strategy was described as «representing the start of the road to the end of fuel poverty in the United Kingdom», there is a consensus that in order to make meaningful progress in the right direction we are in urgent need of a «road map».

The Government's Ministerial Statement is included in the annex below and the link to the consultation on the new fuel poverty strategy in England can be found here».

«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.

It will allow debate and discussion around issues such as the implementation of the new fuel poverty strategy in England which is taking effect from 2015, how we can reduce the health impacts of fuel poverty and will explore the effect of the changes to welfare reform.

With the Government currently consulting on a new fuel poverty strategy for England, the next few weeks present the most significant opportunity in over a decade to influence how those in fuel poverty will be assisted in the future.

The Government's fuel poverty strategy has called for the eradication of fuel poverty in vulnerable households by 2010, and in all households by 2016 in England and a little later in Scotland.

The government's fuel poverty strategy is «going in the wrong direction» and will not succeed in ending fuel poverty by 2016, specialists have warned.

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 regime.

The Warm Homes and Energy Conservation Act 2000, supported by the UK Fuel Poverty Strategy 2001, requires the Government to seek to end to fuel poverty for all households in England by 2016.

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The Strategy had also adopted an interim target to end fuel poverty for all vulnerable households in England by 2010 which was missed.

It is essential that all relevant agencies are kept properly briefed on the problem of fuel poverty to help the development of policies and strategies to deliver affordable warmth.

«We need a comprehensive strategy for a nationwide refit of the UK's cold and draughty homes to tackle climate change and end fuel poverty - starting by ensuring that rented homes meet a basic standard of heating and insulation.

The Conference will bring together key decision - makers, influencers and actors to debate the new strategy as well as the other issues and policies affecting the 4.5 million UK households in fuel poverty».

«Today the Government has recognised that a higher energy efficiency housing standard (Energy Performance Standard Band C) is essential to ending the preventable suffering caused by fuel poverty and have set out a legislative framework and strategy to achieve this.

My current research interests are in hydrogeological systems in glacial environments, and sustainability - related work ranging from the use of knowledge networks in communities for energy reduction, strategies for fuel poverty mitigation, and sustainability education, with particular emphasis on the link between employability and sustainability and the role of sustainability in organisations.

This is not a strategy to end fuel poverty.

The government's strategy under WHECA 2000, which was published in a revised version in December 2002, states that: «In England, the government as far as reasonably practicable will seek an end to fuel poverty for vulnerable households by 2010.

Rather, they complained that the government's anticipated failure to meet its fuel poverty targets showed it had not taken necessary steps to implement the strategy, in breach of WHECA 2000, s 2 (5).

It is a short Act which requires the secretary of state to publish a strategy to ensure that «as far as reasonably practicable persons do not live in fuel poverty» (see WHECA 2000, s 2 (1)-RRB-.

The language of the strategy is aspirational: the government will «seek» an end to fuel poverty with certain (very ambitious) «targets» in mind.