Press Release
Fuel Poverty Bill Failure A Disgrace, Says Help The Aged
20 March 2009
Reacting to today's failure of the Fuel Poverty Bill in the commons, Mervyn Kohler, Special Adviser to Help the Aged, says:
"Millions of older people who have just suffered through one of the coldest winters in years will be devastated and dismayed by this result.
"The Government has shown a tragic lack of urgency in addressing fuel poverty. It seems unable to recognise the scale of the problem which for some older people can be a life and death issue.
"There is no conceivable way Government will meet its legal target to end fuel poverty by 2016 unless Ministers start to make changes to a fuel poverty strategy that has already failed."
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