Response to DESNZ’s Warm Home Discount: cost recovery consultation

National Energy Action welcomes the opportunity to respond to the consultation on the future method of recovering Warm Home Discount costs. The proposed shift from standing charges to unit rate recovery represents an important change to how policy costs are distributed across households, and it comes at a time when affordability pressures remain acute for many of the low-income households we support. Our response reflects both our experience of working directly with households at risk of fuel poverty and our analysis of the distributional effects set out in the consultation.