Fuel Costs

Part of Opposition Day – in the House of Commons at 4:33 pm on 21 March 1984.

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Photo of Mr Peter Rost Mr Peter Rost , Erewash 4:33, 21 March 1984

Has the right hon. Gentleman studied the Right to Fuel campaign's interesting publication. "The Cost of Warmth", which highlights the fact that fuel poverty is due not so much to a 2 per cent. increase in electricity prices after a two-year freeze as to the fact that the needs of the poorest members of the community are not being met? As the variation in needs is much greater among the poorest, because of the homes in which they live and the type of heating that they have, the assistance available does not go to those most in need.