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<p>Last year, the Government consulted on changing the framework for measuring fuel poverty, including whether the proposed change in the fuel poverty</p><p><?notus-xml column=19?></p><p>definition had any implications for the legislative framework as set out in the Warm Homes and Energy Conservation Act 2000. We have since concluded that a new framework is needed and in July we proposed amendments to the Act that will see us set out, through secondary legislation, a new target to address fuel poverty. The amendments maintain the requirement to have in place a strategy to achieve that objective.</p><p>The Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, the right hon. Member for Kingston and Surbiton (Mr Davey), receives a wide range of stakeholder representations and regularly discusses a range of issues relating to fuel poverty. For example, the Secretary of State attended a Fuel Poverty Advisory Group workshop in October, and while there discussed a number of issue relevant to the development of the new fuel poverty strategy.</p> |