National Energy Action response to Review of the Fuel Poverty Strategy – Summary

Summary of our response

Our response to this consultation is based around three key themes:

• The updated strategy should be more ambitious than the one that preceded it, retaining the fuel poverty target.
• A worst-first approach should be maintained, focusing on the experience of fuel poverty, not just the adequacy of housing.
• The Fuel Poverty Strategy and Warm Homes Plan must provide a ‘warmth first’ approach to addressing fuel poverty.

Each of these is summarised in the attached document, before an expansion of our ideas in the answers to the questions posed in the consultation.