Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy written question – answered at on 10 July 2020.
Lyn Brown
Shadow Minister (Justice)
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what plans he has to (a) continue and (b) extend the scope of the Warm Home Discount scheme, after the current scheme finishes at the end of March 2021.
Kwasi Kwarteng
The Minister of State, Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
We will consult on a one-year extension of the current Warm Home Discount scheme later this year. We will also consider reform to improve the Fuel Poverty targeting of the scheme beyond 2022, and will consult on this in due course.
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A household is said to be in fuel poverty when its members cannot afford to keep adequately warm at reasonable cost, given their income.
