England sees funding fall for energy-efficient homes
After a scary drive in the show, home from the station last night this article seems very apposite at the moment…..
As the cold bites, a report says public investment in warm homes in England has been cut by 58% since 2012.
It says Scotland now spends four times as much per citizen as England on energy efficiency.
The report from the energy think tank e3g urges government to make warm homes a national infrastructure priority.
The government did not challenge the figures, but it said that spending on homes was now better targeted at poor households.
According to e3g’s report, England has the second worst record on cold weather-related deaths out of 30 European countries.
The last five years saw an average of 32,000 excess winter deaths in the UK, with 9,700 each year estimated to be linked to living in cold homes.
The drop in investment happened when David Cameron’s government ended all taxpayer-funded energy efficiency programmes in England.