Keeping Warm and Well in Winter - Highlighting the Help Available

When the weather is cold, it’s important for us all to get the help that is available to keep us healthy by having a warm home.

The national fuel poverty charity Energy Action Scotland, with support from Scottish and Southern Energy Power Distribution, has produced an information leaflet called Keeping Warm and Well in Winter.  The leaflets have been distributed to all GP practices across Scotland with a request for them to be displayed in their waiting rooms.

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Figures Released on Cold Homes across the Country (by local authority)

The ability of people across Scotland to afford to heat their homes adequately is clearly in doubt.  This is according to new figures released by the Scottish Government that breaks down the information by local authority area.

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Energy Action Scotland Reaction to Gas Price Cuts

In the wake of announcements by E.ON and SSE that they are reducing gas prices by around 5 per cent, the national fuel poverty charity Energy Action Scotland has called for other companies to follow their example in making cuts but have urged them to do so before the heating season ends.

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Cautious Reaction to New Fuel Poverty Figures for Scotland

The drop in fuel poverty levels in Scotland is given a cautious welcome by the national charity Energy Action Scotland. The figures for 2014 have been published (15 Dec) by the Scottish Government.

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Scottish Government Issued with a Final Demand to End Fuel Poverty

Today (30 November) the Scottish Government has been issued with a ‘final demand’ to end fuel poverty by the national fuel poverty charity Energy Action Scotland.

The letter sent to all MSPs as well as to Scottish Ministers is a reminder that it is exactly one year until the statutory duty to end fuel poverty must be met.  The Housing (Scotland) Act 2001 states that the Scottish Government has ‘to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, that people are not living in fuel poverty in Scotland by November 2016’.

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Minister for Housing and Welfare to Open National Conference on Tackling Fuel Poverty and Providing Affordable Warmth for All

 Minister for Housing and Welfare, Margaret Burgess MSP is expected to highlight the Scottish Government’s action to ensure everyone in Scotland can afford to heat their homes when she opens a national conference on fuel poverty today (Nov 12) in Peebles, organised by the national charity Energy Action Scotland.

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Call for End to Fuel Poverty Made in Face of Huge Increase in Excess Winter Deaths and in Support of Challenge Poverty Week

‘Set out a detailed plan to ensure that no-one in Scotland has to live in a cold, damp, expensive to heat home.’

This is the call from the national charity Energy Action Scotland to the Scottish Government during Challenge Poverty Week and on the day that a four-fold increase in the number of excess winter deaths in Scotland is announced.

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