Despite the £400 energy bills payment, seven million homes in the UK will experience fuel poverty this winter without a further £14bn package of emergency support, the Warm This Winter campaign has warned. The group is calling for urgent additional assistance for the most vulnerable and says help is needed to avoid “severe health impacts of living in cold, damp homes crippling the NHS and causing excess winter deaths”.
There were 3.2 million fuel-poor households in England in 2020, according to recent government data.
