Fuel Poverty - 8th March 2012

Here are the climate-related sections of speeches by MPs during the Commons debate Fuel Poverty.

Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2012-03-08/debates/12030895000024/FuelPoverty

Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree) (Lab/Co-op)

When the previous Labour Government left office, 1 million fewer households were living in fuel poverty than in 1997. The Tory Government have scrapped Warm Front, the carbon emissions reduction target, the community energy saving programme and social tariffs, and they have cut the winter fuel allowance. As a result, the level of fuel poverty has risen from one in five households to one in four. The Minister, who is responsible for tackling climate change, has said that the energy company obligation would deliver far more for the fuel poor than any measure introduced by Labour, yet the Government’s own figures show that, in a best-case scenario, the ECO will lift just half a million homes out of fuel poverty. With energy bills at record levels, why are the Government turning their back on the fuel poor?

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