Fuel poverty
17 Apr 2023
Boiler ban risks pushing rural residents into fuel poverty
69% of households not connected to the gas grid would be unable to afford an electric heating system, new rural polling has shown 58% of these households also believe Government’s...
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17 Apr 2023
Increased flexibility of alternative fuel payments
The Government has announced it is expanding the scheme offering households using alternative fuels £200 in energy bills support The announcement means more households using heating oil, LPG, biomass and other alternative...
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20 Mar 2023
Rural Fuel Poverty Gap widens
Annual Fuel Poverty Statistics published on 28 Feb 2023 for the year 2022 show that in 2022, households living in rural areas have a higher rate of fuel poverty and...
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13 Mar 2023
Cap energy bills at £2000 to help rural homes hit hardest by energy crisis
The i reports that the Liberal Democrats have called for an “energy rescue package” to be introduced in the Budget to help rural communities hit hardest by rising energy bills...
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19 Dec 2022
Rural poverty: ‘We’ve got two full-time jobs and it’s still not enough to pay the bills’
ITV News reports that a new YouGov Survey for End Fuel Poverty Coalition revealed that half of those who live in rural households are classed as vulnerable – with one...
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07 Nov 2022
Cost-of-living crisis in the countryside
The below article written by RSN Chair Cecilia Motley is featured in this months Local Government First (click here to view this article). (NB it was written for publication before Liz Truss...
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24 Oct 2022
Rising oil price brings worries for rural households
The BBC reports that many rural households are worrying about heating their homes this winter as the price of oil increases The government has promised £100 to support people who...
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17 Oct 2022
Government Energy Bill Survey
The Department for Business are asking all businesses to respond to a survey on energy bills and the impact increased costs are having on your business The Association of Convenience...
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10 Oct 2022
Call for Rural to be at the heart of the journey to Net Zero
The impacts of dangerous climate change will affect all communities. This much is already clear from the rural impacts of increasingly frequent storm damage, flood events and periods of drought....
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10 Oct 2022
Fuel for today, fuel for the future – a fair transition to net zero for rural communities
Decarbonising rural homes and businesses is a unique challenge, but current government plans for an electric-first heating approach do not look widely enough at transitional or mixed technology approaches –...
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