Ministers to Miss Target On Helping Those in Fuel Poverty

Western Morning News, The › March 30, 2010

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THE Government will miss its target to lift tens of thousands of Westcountry households out of fuel poverty by this year, a committee of MPs has warned. The Energy and Climate Change Committee also said a second goal to end fuel poverty among all homes in England by 2016 looked "increasingly difficult to hit".

Households are considered to be in fuel poverty if they spend more than 10 per cent of their income on heating rooms to a reasonable temperature.

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Ministers to Miss Target On Helping Those in Fuel Poverty

There were an estimated four million households in fuel poverty in the UK in 2...

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