Putting fuel poverty on the agenda

We're enjoying a few days of late summer weather here in Edinburgh; but it won't be too long until winter. And that will mean that the issue of fuel poverty will be up on the political agenda again. That's an issue which I've taken up in Westminster in the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Debt and Personal Finance, which I chair, and of course it's an issue here in the constituency during the winter months in particular (one ofthe reasons of course why I've taken it up in Parliament).

Our group has just released a report with recommendations on tackling fuel poverty, and once Parliament in Westminster is back in session, I hope to be able to take up the proposals in the report and try and see what we can do to get changes to policy to do something about an issue which last year's increases in energy prices brought back into sharp focus again. There's more about the report on my main website; comments welcome!