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Government insistence that the latest statistics show a fall in fuel poverty in 2010 is misleading, campaigners have claimed.
Statistics for 2010 from the Department of Energy and Climate Change (Decc) showed that fuel poverty in England fell to 3.5 million in 2010 from 4 million in 2009 and is projected to be 3.9 million this year. Climate change minister Greg Barker said he was “encouraged” but not “complacent” about the figures.
National Energy Action (NEA) warned that the figures were misleading. Chief executive Jenny Saunders said “gas and electricity price increases in 2011 mean that more than 5 million households in England now face unaffordable energy costs”.
She also complained that unlike the devolved administrations in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, the Treasury had halved spending on measures in England designed to increase energy efficiency and combat fuel poverty.
· Decc has announced a quick-fire review of the work of the independent Fuel Poverty Advisory Group.
This article first appeared in Utility Week’s print edition of 25 May 2012.
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