Can you provide an update on the operation of your £500,000 Fuel Poverty Support Fund?

My Fuel Poverty Support Fund is now known as the Warm Homes Advice Service. I have funded this since February 2018 and up until December 2020 have supported 7,541 London households in or at risk of fuel poverty, including delivering home energy advice visits to 5,939 homes and supporting over 1,800 applications for the Mayor’s Warmer Homes grant. By April 2021 it will have helped almost 8,100 households.

Given the likely impact of the pandemic and economic downturn on fuel poverty, I have recently allocated an additional £100,000 of funding for this through MD2748. My funding has leveraged additional funding by the boroughs delivering the Advice Service.