Oral Answers to Questions

Liz Twist Excerpts

Tuesday 27th February 2024 Commons Chamber

[Marion Fellows (Motherwell and Wishaw) (SNP)]

8. What steps she is taking to support households in fuel poverty during winter.

[Liz Twist (Blaydon) (Lab)]

10. What estimate she has made of the number of households in fuel poverty in winter 2023-24.

[Afzal Khan (Manchester, Gorton) (Lab)]

13. What estimate she has made of the number of households in fuel poverty in winter 2023-24.

--- Later in debate ---

[Amanda Solloway]

Last winter, this Government delivered £40 billion for households and businesses. We also have the warm home discount, the winter fuel payment and the disability cost of living payment. We are committed to ensuring that affordability is top of our list in relation to energy security.

[Liz Twist]

We have had 14 years of fiasco after fiasco with energy saving schemes from this Government. Frankly, my constituents are fed up with it. In Gateshead, just seven homes have been upgraded under the Government’s latest energy efficiency scheme. Can the Minister say why this is such a disaster and why progress is so slow?

[Amanda Solloway]

We continue to drive energy efficiency improvements for lower-income and fuel-poor households, through schemes including the energy company obligation, the social housing decarbonisation scheme and the homes upgrade grant.