Fuel Poverty

Part of the debate – in the Scottish Parliament at 10:44 am on 13 March 2008.

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Photo of Jamie McGrigor Jamie McGrigor Conservative 10:44, 13 March 2008

Let me make progress—I will come back to the member in a minute.

I well remember in the previous session of Parliament taking on, in a short period, more than 100 cases involving senior citizens in the Highlands and Islands who could not get the free central heating that they had been promised. Some of those people who had no heating were in Orkney and Shetland. Because the proportion of elderly people in our population is ever increasing, a long-term solution must be found if the Government is to honour its pledges on the central heating programme.