Fuel Poverty Advisory Group: Work Plan 2007
Below are the proposals for the group's work plan for 2007:
- Resources for fuel poverty (CSR, EEC, Decent Homes)
- Progress on fuel poverty in White Paper and especially in any Energy legislation
- Fuel poverty targets - PSA and related targets and statutory targets
- Prices for customers - ensure that they are as low as possible in particular retail prices to fall as wholesale prices fall and charges for transmission/distribution to be as low as possible
- Prices for low income customers - low cost payment methods for low income customers, especially further work on low cost prepayment meters; Post Office deductions, and social tariffs
- Progress on targeting of customers for expensive measures and social tariffs
- Programmes for non-mainstream measures in low income homes
- Secure fuel poverty in Local Government Performance Framework and in Local Area Agreements and work on potential actions by LAs
- Gas Network Extensions
- Energy efficiency standards in social sector and housing targets
- Data provision from DWP and LAs
- Benefit Entitlement checks
- Supplier obligations and fuel poverty
- Government Business Plan for fuel poverty
- Future of Group from April 2008