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<p>Government is addressing fuel poverty by improving home energy efficiency and making
energy more affordable for vulnerable households. Parliament has passed legislation
to introduce an energy price cap, protecting households on standard variable and default
tariffs in addition to the protection provided by the pre-payment and vulnerable customer
safeguard tariffs. Over 2 million low income and vulnerable households will also benefit
this winter from the Warm Home Discount, a £140 rebate on their energy bill which
we have committed to through to 2021 and all pensioner households receive between
£100 and £300 over the winter months through the Winter Fuel Payment.</p><p> </p><p>We
have also announced that we will focus all of the £640 million per year Energy Company
Obligation on low income and vulnerable households from 2018 to 2022. This new scheme
will also include support for innovation, aimed at improving quality and reducing
the cost of technologies that will be required to meet the fuel poverty target. Beyond
those dates, we committed through the Clean Growth Strategy to extending support for
energy efficiency at least at the current level of ECO through to 2028, meaning over
£6 billion of investment will be made into home energy efficiency over the next ten
years. In addition, we introduced legislation in April this year requiring private
landlords to improve the energy efficiency of F and G rated properties, so that all
tenants can heat their home at a reasonable cost.</p>
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