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Caroline Flint, the chair of the Committee on Fuel Poverty, has said that “the dial hasn’t shifted” on cutting fuel poverty over the last five years, as she called for more support for household bills this winter.
There are 13.1m English households in fuel poverty, including 900,000 families with children. That is basically unchanged compared with last year.
We’ve been very worried. We’ve got record levels of debt. It’s if anything worse than at any other time in the crisis.
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