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Energy Company Obligation: Low Incomes

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Question for Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

UIN 127683, tabled on 19 January 2023

Question

Dr Alan Whitehead
Labour
Southampton, Test
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will make it his policy to target all the funding from the ECO+ scheme at the low-income eligibility group in order to help meet the Government's fuel poverty targets.

Answer

Graham Stuart
Conservative
Beverley and Holderness
Commons

Answered on

24 January 2023

The Government published a consultation on the design of the ECO+scheme, which proposed a requirement for a minimum of 20% of the obligation to be delivered to low-income households. The Government has not proposed to restrict the number of low-income households that can be supported through the scheme. The remaining obligation is available to both low-income households and a wider customer base, who otherwise would not be eligible for any support through other Government energy efficiency schemes.

The Government is analysing responses to the consultation and will publish a response in due course.

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