Sentences with phrase «of fuel poverty»

Furthermore, although some people are locked into fuel poverty for the longer term, others come into and out of fuel poverty over shorter periods.

Whilst all four countries are experiencing high levels of fuel poverty the Monitor identifies a number of particular difficulties being faced by vulnerable households in the individual countries.

Policy makers need to address this urgently by understanding and addressing the multiple causes of fuel poverty.

Why did it not think to consider mitigating the effects of fuel poverty before creating the problem of increasing fuel poverty?

This represents a significant drain from a tribal economy, particularly in terms of fuel poverty — or the lack of ability to heat our homes.

The social cost of fuel poverty is massive, and growing.

But climate change policy delivery is made more difficult by the existence of fuel poverty.

That's taken many people out of fuel poverty — especially if they use electricity rather than gas to heat their homes.

This Chapter has looked at the underlying causes of fuel poverty and who they most affect, as well as energy use.

Why should we think that the government's attempts to intervene to mitigate the effects of fuel poverty will be any less damaging than their attempt to mitigate climate change?

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.

FoE knew what it was asking for: for policies that would make life difficult for people, and it knew that the government wasn't capable of, or interested in, solving the problem of fuel poverty in any meaningful way.

An annual report that monitors fuel poverty across the UK has today been published, highlighting the fact that the relentless increase in the scale of fuel poverty across all four nations of the UK continues despite the efforts of the Westminster Government and the devolved administrations of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

The research team aims to develop and further understanding of the changing patterns, causes and consequences of fuel poverty through its broad and varied work programme, uncovering the circumstances and processes which lead households to be exposed to either cold and damp homes, or the achievement of a warm and dry home at the expense of other resources necessary for health and well - being.

The much awaited announcement follows an independent review of the fuel poverty definition and target, and reforms set out in the Energy Act last year, where the Coalition Government repealed legislation to eradicate fuel poverty in England by 2016.

In Scotland, the longer heating season and consequent higher energy costs exacerbate the scale of fuel poverty and emphasise the need for additional support for households in Scotland in terms of both energy efficiency funding and support with fuel costs.

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

NEA undertakes to collect and disseminate statistical data on the extent of fuel poverty.

The Warm Homes Campaign is NEA and Energy Action Scotland's annual campaign targeted at the public and the country's decision makers to raise awareness of fuel poverty and the benefits of improved energy efficiency.

Professor John Hills, a social policy expert from the London School of Economics, is leading a Review of Fuel Poverty which should report interim findings in autumn of this year with a final report to Government no later than January 2012.

Income maximisation measures play a key role in addressing fuel poverty, NEA is campaigning to ensure that instruments such as the Winter Fuel Payment and Cold Weather Payment should be retained and extended and Government should identify all groups at risk of fuel poverty for assistance through these mechanisms and others such as the Warm Homes Discount scheme

NEA's is urging politicians to address the three main elements of fuel poverty — poor household energy efficiency, high energy prices and low incomes:

We look forward to being part of the discussion to help highlight the changes needed to tackle the challenge of fuel poverty as effectively as possible.»

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.

Since 2009 we have allocated over # 500 million on a range of fuel poverty and energy efficiency programmes, installing more than 900,000 energy efficiency measures in homes across Scotland - nearly one in three of all households have received energy efficiency measures.

In the context of fuel poverty, NEA has emphasised that this approach is both regressive and perverse.

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.»

«If Labour had followed our advice sooner people could be helped out of fuel poverty now.

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».

Up to 100,000 households could be lifted out of fuel poverty after the government persuaded the UK's six largest energy suppliers to increase the amount they spend on social programmes.

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.»

«You can't separate the drive to cut benefits and the fact of fuel poverty.

«We believe the Government has acted unlawfully by failing in its legal commitment to end the suffering of fuel poverty.

However, DECC and its defenders have answered criticisms of rising levels of fuel poverty by the policies of the Climate Change Act by claiming that rises in energy bills (the kind you pay for directly, not draft legislation in Parliament) are due to the market, over which they have no control.

In other words, on in every 23,124 people in the UK died last year, because of fuel poverty, caused by the UK's climate change and energy policies.

The issue of fuel poverty also ties in strongly with the urgent need to tackle climate change, as part of which a priority is to improve energy efficiency standards in UK homes in order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Two spectacular low energy social housing units looking out over Ulva Ferry's breath - taking surroundings prove to be a superb response to local problems of fuel poverty and lack of affordable family housing.

There are some 23,000 excess winter deaths, as they are unattractively called, each year as a result of fuel poverty, and the situation is becoming ever more challenging.

Whilst all four countries are experiencing high levels of fuel poverty the Monitor identifies a number of particular difficulties being faced by vulnerable households in the individual countries calling on the need for Government to provide a more concise and effective plan to tackle the problem.

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.

A major factor in this high incidence of fuel poverty is lack of access to mains gas and dependence on more expensive oil as a heating fuel.