Part of Energy and Climate Change – in the House of Commons at 9:30 am on 31 January 2013.
Gregory Barker
The Minister of State, Department of Energy and Climate Change
9:30,
31 January 2013
The fact is that a minimum of £540 million a year under ECO will be directed towards the fuel poor. That is a minimum; we expect far more to end up in low-income areas as ECO rolls out, and as we upgrade our housing and finally come up with the solution in respect of retrofitting that Labour, in 13 years, failed to offer.
A household is said to be in fuel poverty when its members cannot afford to keep adequately warm at reasonable cost, given their income.
