This year the Government will spend around £5.3 billion on a number of fuel poverty-related programmes. Warm Front and the Priority Group element of CERT should result in some £850 million being spent on heating and insulation improvements with a further £2.7 billion being expended on Winter Fuel Payments.
Historically, NEA has advocated practical heating and insulation improvements as the most rational and sustainable approach to affordable warmth whilst recognising the need for supplementary action on household incomes and energy prices. This paper concentrates on the energy efficiency dimension and attempts to devise a means by
which expenditure in this area can be both maximised and optimised.
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