19 July 2007
The government is being called upon to assure it devotes sufficient cash to help vulnerable, low-income homes this winter.
Warm Front, the 350 million scheme to assist low-income homes, has urged MPs to ensure that energy efficiency and fuel poverty targets are met as the winter months approach.
Indeed it has teamed up with National Energy Action (NEA), Citizens Advice, energywatch, the Family Welfare Association, Help the Aged, the Public Utilities Forum and the National Right to Fuel Campaign to write a letter to parliament to push for sustained financial help.
William Gillis, Chief Executive of NEA said: "Warm Front has proved to be a major lever in helping to lift vulnerable people out of fuel poverty.
"Without sustained financial support for this scheme, the governments fuel poverty agenda will slip even further and government will fail its legally binding target to eradicate fuel poverty by 2010.
Already this year Warm Front has helped to improve the energy efficiency of more than 1.4 million vulnerable households, by providing central heating and insulation.
According to figures from the NEA, increase in fuel prices over the past three years have resulted in an extra 1.2 million households categorised as living in fuel poverty.
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