HC Deb 16 May 2002 vol 385 c813W
17. Dr. Cable

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs if she will make a statement on the fuel poverty strategy. [55131]

Mr. Meacher

The UK Fuel Poverty Strategy, published in November last year, set out the government's goal to seek an end to fuel poverty, with the first target to ensure that by 2010, no vulnerable household need risk ill health due to a cold home.

The strategy's aim is to improve the energy efficiency of fuel poor households, to maintain the downward pressure on fuel bills, to tackle poverty and social exclusion.