The government’s own “Fuel poverty” adviser has been on TV and radio telling us that we will have more people in fuel poverty this winter than at any time for the last ten years. Well, there’s a surprise! I wonder how much he and his staff get paid to

The Government is finally expected to unveil a fuel poverty package tomorrow but without a windfall tax on energy companies' profits.

The Government will tomorrow launch its muchheralded fuel poverty package but there will be no windfall tax on energy companies.

It seems that official statistics on fuel poverty are two years in arears, as the BBC reports that a million more people fell into fuel poverty in 2006. The number of households in fuel poverty in the UK rose to 3.5 million in 2006, government figures show. The figures from the Department for Environment and the Department

Plaid Cymru launched it’s campaign - Warming Wales: On Your Side this Winter. It is being led by the Westminster Group, as fuel poverty has increased dramatically in Wales as a direct result of UK Government policy. Parliamentary leader, Elfyn Llwyd MP, urged Gordon Brown to take immediate action on this issue so that Welsh households will be able to adequately heat their homes this Winter. ...

Plaid Cymru today launched their campaign - Warming Wales: On Your Side this Winter. It is being led by the Westminster Group, as fuel poverty has increased dramatically in Wales as a direct result of UK Government policy. Parliamentary leader, Elfyn Llwyd MP, urged Gordon Brown to take immediate action on this issue so that Welsh households will be able to adequately heat their homes this Winter....

Gordon Brown has come under intense political pressure to squeeze extra cash out of Britain's energy companies to tackle fuel poverty

Someone who agrees with me! On the subject of fuel poverty, insisting that the companies pay to subsidise those in fuel poverty is a nonsense. It's a disguised tax on all the other power users. Taxes of course should be transparent, not disguised (yes, I know, ho, ho). Brenda Boardman, a former government adviser on energy and senior

Select committee claims ministers are failing millions of vulnerable families and demands urgent action on fuel poverty The government was today urged to offer more help to the millions of families in fuel poverty due to rising energy prices. The Environment, Food and Rural Affairs select committee said ministers had failed to meet statutory obligations to end fuel poverty and called on them to se...

Gordon Brown has come under intense political pressure to squeeze extra cash out of Britain's energy companies to tackle fuel poverty