Part of Energy and Climate Change – in the House of Commons at 10:30 am on 5 November 2009.
David Kidney
Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Department of Energy and Climate Change
10:30,
5 November 2009
The hon. Gentleman must surely agree that we would still be waiting for the result if we had taken his course of action a year ago. Instead, in that time we have had the changes to the licence conditions that are making a difference, and we have also committed to legislative changes. In the meantime, the Government's programmes and spending have saved between 400,000 and 800,000 other households from falling into Fuel Poverty. That is an achievement in itself.
A household is said to be in fuel poverty when its members cannot afford to keep adequately warm at reasonable cost, given their income.