Fuel Poverty (No.2) Bill 2008-09

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	Bill as introduced | PDF version, 99KB	25.06.2009

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This Bill was presented to Parliament on10 June. This is known as First Reading and there was no debate on the Bill at this stage.

This Bill was on the Order Paper for a Second Reading on several Fridays before being dropped by its sponsor, Dr Alan Whitehead.

 

Summary of the Bill

The Bill would set a target of the end of 2016 for offering to the number of households defined as being in fuel poverty an energy efficiency package. This target could only be amended by a Statutory Instrument, after consultation. The provisions require that the package must be based on a ‘whole house’ approach, should entail no installation cost to the householder and be good enough to take the household out of fuel poverty or raise the property to Energy Performance Certificate band C. The measures taken may include insulation, microgeneration and district heating. The Bill would also:

• require the Government to publish a fuel poverty strategy and a fuel poverty annual report
• require energy suppliers to provide energy assistance packages to the fuel poor.

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