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The Warm Front Scheme
— report by the Comptroller and Auditor General | | Corporate Author | National Audit Office - NAO |
| Publisher | TSO, London, 2009 |
| Pages | 23 pp (HC 126 session 2008/09) |
| Source | TSO, PO Box 29, Norwich NR3 1GN. www.tso.co.uk/bookshop |
| Keywords | Winter care ; Heating systems ; Heat insulation ; Improvement ; Fuel expenditure ; Social policy ; Government publications. |
| Annotation | The Government classifies a fuel poor household as one needing to spend more than 10% of annual income on energy costs. In 2007, more than 3 million households were estimated to be in fuel poverty, with older people and those in long-term ill health making up a sizeable proportion. Following the Warm Homes and Energy Conservation Act 2000, the Warm Front Scheme has been a key programme under the UK Fuel Poverty Strategy issued in 2001. This report follows up earlier National Audit Office (NAO) examinations of the Scheme in 1998 and 2003. It focuses on: the extent to which the Scheme has helped those in fuel poverty; services provided to customers; the costs of work done; and management by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) of its contract with eaga (an outsourcing company that supplies heating and renewable energy). Appendices include some of the views of stakeholders and grant recipients. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-090421003 B |
| Classmark | IB: YF: YFP: 5ST: J6: TM2: 6OA |
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