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UK Government record on fuel poverty. Financial support for fuel poor reduced by 26% Financial support for energy efficiency measures for fuel poor reduced by 46% Warm Front axed - only Exchequer funded energy efficiency programme.
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UK Government record on fuel poverty Financial support for fuel poor reduced by 26% Financial support for energy efficiency measures for fuel poor reduced by 46% Warm Front axed - only Exchequer funded energy efficiency programme
Recent rates of household insulation- (000) households per year (DECC)
Energy Company Obligation ECO will remove up to 250,000 households from fuel poverty by 2023 Winter 2012 / 2013 – 300,000 more households fall in to fuel poverty
UK Fuel Poverty - 2013 5 to 6 million households in fuel poverty
UK Fuel Poverty - 2016 9 million households in fuel poverty
Solving Fuel Poverty Immediate support to lower energy bills Regulation to protect consumers Regulation to wean UK off fossil fuels Programme to super-insulate all homes
The Ask The UK Government to use carbon revenues to super insulate UK homes – prioritising the homes of the fuel poor E3G - Third Generation Environmentalism 10
The prize £60 Billion Enough to super-insulate 9 million fuel poor homes
Carbon revenues grow from £2 billion to £8 billion per year over 15 years
The impact 9 million households brought out of fuel poverty Quadrupled carbon savings Generation of 128,000 jobs
Economic Results Short term investment stimulus generates up to 71,000 jobs in 2015 boosts economic output more than VAT cuts, fuel duty reductions and government spending Long term economic gains Up to 128,000 jobs in 2027 Lower gas imports extra domestic spending
The Energy Bill Revolution :Biggest Fuel Poverty Alliance Ever Created
E3G - Third Generation Environmentalism The Revolution reaches Parliament
Media Coverage National front pages Local coverage extensive E3G - Third Generation Environmentalism 23
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