Fuel Poverty Advisory Group
Workplan 2007
- Resources for fuel poverty (Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR), Energy Efficiency Commitment (EEC) and Decent Homes)
- Progress on fuel poverty in White Paper and especially in any energy legislation
- Fuel poverty targets – Public Service Agreement (PSA) and related targets and statutory targets
- Prices for customers – ensure that they are as low as possible in particular retail prices to fall as wholesale prices fall and charges for transmission/distribution to be as low as possible
- Prices for low income customers – low cost payment methods for low income customers, especially further work on low cost prepayment meters; Post Office deductions, and social tariffs
- Progress on targeting of customers for expensive measures and social tariffs
- Programmes for non–mainstream measures in low income homes
- Secure fuel poverty in Local Government Performance Framework and in Local Area Agreements and work on potential actions by Local Authorities (LAs)
- Gas network extensions
- Energy efficiency standards in social sector and housing targets
- Data provision from Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) and LAs
- Benefit entitlement checks
- Supplier obligations and fuel poverty
- Government business plan for fuel poverty
- Future of group from April 2008
Page last modified: 20 February 2007
Page published: 14 May 2002