– Scottish Parliament written question – answered at on 27 January 2009.
Patricia Ferguson
Labour
Question S3W-19946
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answers to questions S3W-18204 S3W-18198 and S3W 18199 by Stewart Maxwell on 3 and 5 December 2008 respectively, when it expects to announce the allocation of resources to deliver the Energy Assistance Package.
Stewart Maxwell
Scottish National Party
We announced in November that £55.8 million will be available for delivering the Energy Assistance Package for 2009-10, and in the Budget Bill in January that an additional £5 million will be allocated to tackling Fuel Poverty. The allocation of resources for the different elements of the Energy Assistance Package is being finalised and will be agreed before the package commences in April.
A household is said to be in fuel poverty when its members cannot afford to keep adequately warm at reasonable cost, given their income.
A household is said to be in fuel poverty when its members cannot afford to keep adequately warm at reasonable cost, given their income.
