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The Warm Front Scheme

Author : Great Britain. National Audit Office
Publisher : The Stationery Office
ISBN 13 : 9780102954531
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (545 download)

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Download or read book The Warm Front Scheme written by Great Britain. National Audit Office and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2009 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Department of Energy and Climate Change's Warm Front Scheme to tackle fuel poverty in England helped to improve the energy efficiency of over 635,000 households between June 2005 and March 2008. There were, however, 1.9 million vulnerable households in 2006, so this rate of progress will still leave many in fuel poverty in 2010. The installation of central heating systems and insulation in homes has helped vulnerable. 86 per cent of assisted households are either highly satisfied or satisfied with the work done. The delivery of the Scheme has been largely effective but it has been impaired by problems in Scheme design. The Government's use of proxy measures, such as benefit entitlement, to determine who is eligible for Scheme grants is a pragmatic approach, but it has resulted in inefficient targeting of resources. Fifty-seven per cent of vulnerable households in fuel poverty do not claim the relevant benefits to qualify for the Scheme. And nearly 75 per cent of households who would qualify are not necessarily in fuel poverty. In addition, between June 2005 and March 2008 the Scheme has given £34 million in grants to households whose properties were already comparatively energy efficient. Gas and oil boiler replacement costs are at the higher end of the range, partly because of Scheme specifications. The grant available has not increased since 2005 and more applicants (around 25 per cent in 2007-08) are having to contribute towards the cost of the work carried out. Some eligible applicants are therefore withdrawing from the Scheme, or not progressing their applications (around 20,400 households in total as of October 2008).

Energy and Ethics

Author : Benjamin K. Sovacool
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137298669
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (372 download)

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Download or read book Energy and Ethics written by Benjamin K. Sovacool and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-07-08 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Benjamin K. Sovacool applies concepts from justice and ethics theory to contemporary energy problems, and illustrates particular solutions to those problems with examples and case studies from around the world.

Warm Front Scheme

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Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Warm Front Scheme written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Energy efficiency and fuel poverty

Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
ISBN 13 : 9780215530622
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (36 download)

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Book Synopsis Energy efficiency and fuel poverty by : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee

Download or read book Energy efficiency and fuel poverty written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2009-06-10 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With failure to meet its statutory obligation to end fuel poverty imminent, the Government should instigate an action plan as a matter of urgency to help the millions of UK households who remain in fuel poverty as a result of fuel price rises. This report (HCP 37, session 2008-09, ISBN 9780215530622) on Energy efficiency and fuel poverty from the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee states, that the Winter Fuel Payment should be made taxable and stopped for those paying higher rate tax so that more money can be directed to fund bigger and better-targeted energy efficiency programmes aimed in the first instance at the fuel poor. To ensure more rapid improvement of the entire English housing stock, the range of current energy efficiency programmes should be consolidated into one comprehensive area-based programme to upgrade all homes and to be delivered by local authorities. The Committee wants the Government to: produce a detailed "road map" setting out how to deliver a national plan to make every home in England energy efficient to a minimum SAP level of 65 and to SAP 81 wherever practicable (SAP is the Government's Standard Assessment Procedure for Energy Rating of Dwellings and uses a scale of 1 to 100, with a higher rating indicating a better level of energy efficiency); create a central budget into which energy companies pay their CERT contributions so that they can be pooled with money from other programmes, to fund a single consolidated comprehensive, area-based programme led by local authorities to deliver the national plan. The Committee also concludes that: resources for tackling fuel poverty are inadequate and getting worse. Warm Front, should see its budget increased rather than cut repeatedly and should now be extended to include all hard-to-treat properties. All schemes designed to help the fuel poor or improve energy efficiency would be better targeted if those organisations in charge of their delivery had better access to data on a range of variables including energy efficiency levels in homes, household incomes and fuel costs. The Department for Energy & Climate Change should survey current data needs and access arrangements as a matter of urgency.

Fuel poverty

Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Energy and Climate Change Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
ISBN 13 : 9780215553416
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (534 download)

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Book Synopsis Fuel poverty by : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Energy and Climate Change Committee

Download or read book Fuel poverty written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Energy and Climate Change Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2010-03-30 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is fifth report from the Energy and Climate Change Committee (HCP 424-I, session 2009-10, ISBN 9780215553416) and looks at the issue of fuel poverty. The Committee states that the Government is going to miss its target to end fuel poverty amongst vulnerable households in England in 2010. The target to end fuel poverty for all households in England by 2016 also looks difficult to hit. The Committee's report is a stocktake of performance in tackling fuel poverty and sets out areas of concern which the Committee want to see addressed in the new Parliament. It sets out a number of recommendations, including: a 'road map' to be drawn up, setting out how fuel poverty is to be tackled in greater detail; the Government to consider whether a database of domestic energy efficiency should be set up; a sharpening of the focus of the Warm Front scheme so that it helps those most in need; an urgent review of the market for fuels bought by people who are not connected to the mains gas grid.

Energy Prices, Fuel Poverty and Ofgem

Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Business and Enterprise Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
ISBN 13 : 9780215523259
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (232 download)

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Book Synopsis Energy Prices, Fuel Poverty and Ofgem by : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Business and Enterprise Committee

Download or read book Energy Prices, Fuel Poverty and Ofgem written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Business and Enterprise Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2008 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A report from the 'Business and Enterprise Committee' that inquires into the effect of the 'Big 6' energy companies - which include Npower, Centrica, EDF Energy, Scottish Power, and Scottish and Southern Energy - all raising their prices between January and April 2008. It aims to feed into a separate inquiry being carried out by Ofgem.

Delivering Successful IT-enabled Business Change

Author : Great Britain: National Audit Office
Publisher : The Stationery Office
ISBN 13 : 0102943710
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (29 download)

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Book Synopsis Delivering Successful IT-enabled Business Change by : Great Britain: National Audit Office

Download or read book Delivering Successful IT-enabled Business Change written by Great Britain: National Audit Office and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2006-11-17 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a companion volume to the main NAO report (HCP 33-I, session 2006-07, ISBN 0102942323) and it contains details of 24 case studies which form the basis of the NAOs analysis of factors that contribute to successful delivery of IT-enabled programmes and projects which have achieved tangible benefits for citizens and taxpayers. Drawn from the public and private sectors in the UK and overseas, these case studies include: i) the Department for Work and Pensions Payment Modernisation Programme which cost £824 million and has transformed the payment of benefits and pensions through direct bank payments; ii) the Oyster electronic smartcard introduced by Transport for London in 2003 and a capital cost of £40 million; and iii) from the private sector, the UK trade associations chip and PIN programme at a cost of £1.1 billion.

UK dependence on gas and coal imports

Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Trade and Industry Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
ISBN 13 : 9780215037121
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (371 download)

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Book Synopsis UK dependence on gas and coal imports by : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Trade and Industry Committee

Download or read book UK dependence on gas and coal imports written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Trade and Industry Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2007-11-07 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: UK dependence on gas and coal Imports : Oral and written Evidence

Warm Front

Author : Great Britain. National Audit Office
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780102921717
Total Pages : 41 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (217 download)

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Download or read book Warm Front written by Great Britain. National Audit Office and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2001, there were an estimated 1.8 million households affected by fuel poverty in England, a problem which damages people's quality of life and health, with more illnesses such as influenza, heart disease and strokes, as well as increased risk of death in winter. The 'Warm Front' scheme, costing on average £150 million a year, is part of the government's UK Fuel Poverty Strategy. It seeks to improve the home energy efficiency of vulnerable groups, such as households with children, those aged 60 years and over, the disabled and long-term sick, by providing grants for insulation and heating to homes in the owner occupier and private rented sectors. The report finds that the scheme has potential but its effectiveness in helping to eliminate fuel poverty is impaired by a number of issues including the eligibility criteria; the inadequacy of heating and insulation measures; and the limited targeting of grants to those in greatest need. Recommendations are made to ensure the scheme meets the Strategy's aims including the need for greater research on its impact, improved targets; and that the Government should consider concentrating eligibility criteria on low income groups in receipt of means-tested benefits.

Means testing

Author : Great Britain: National Audit Office
Publisher : The Stationery Office
ISBN 13 : 9780102976700
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (767 download)

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Download or read book Means testing written by Great Britain: National Audit Office and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2011-09-14 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is clear that means testing will be used extensively for the foreseeable future as it helps target state support at the people that need it most, but it can have many other important consequences. For example, there can be disincentives for recipients of means-tested benefits to return to work. Means testing also makes the administration of benefits more complex and is associated with higher costs as well as increased rates of fraud and error. In light of proposed and ongoing reforms to benefits and related programmes, the NAO notes the importance of departments sharing good practice and learning from past experiences in the design of means tests. For example, HM Revenue and Customs has struggled in the past with unexpectedly large overpayments of tax credits (£9 billion between 2003-04 and 2009-10) because of the way that payments are determined under the legislation. Departments need to consider all of the impacts of means testing: for example, the burden on claimants, such as difficulty with completing forms and the cost of requesting advice. Issues associated with means testing, such as incorrect declarations of earnings and errors by officials in calculating entitlements, accounted for over half of all fraud and error in benefits and tax credits. There is a lack of coordination of, and overall accountability for, means testing across government. For example, no one body has responsibility for looking at how the impact of university fees will be influenced by wider means testing.

Extending and Improving Your Home

Author : M. J. Billington
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118423399
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (184 download)

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Download or read book Extending and Improving Your Home written by M. J. Billington and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-06-04 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written for small builders and tradesmen such as bricklayers and carpenters, as well as householders wanting to provide more space and enhanced living conditions without the substantial cost of moving house. While there are many books that deal with the construction aspects of extending a house, there are few sources that combine the planning, construction and regulatory aspects into one easily accessible source. Extending and Improving a Home meets that need. By focussing on specific building elements – foundations, walls, roofs, services, finishes etc – the book neatly provides a comprehensive, accessible guide to the areas of home improvement that cause most concern for householders and small builders. Extending and Improving a Home will: Guide you through the maze of legislation that affects most building alterations and extensions; show how to go about getting a project realised in terms of design, choice of contractor and construction, successfully and to budget, and give sound technical solutions for all the elements of a project that also comply with Building Regulations.

The Warm Front scheme

Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Committee of Public Accounts
Publisher : Stationery Office
ISBN 13 : 9780215540287
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book The Warm Front scheme written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Committee of Public Accounts and published by Stationery Office. This book was released on 2009-07-24 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Public Accounts Committee has published a report on the Warm Front Scheme (HCP 350, session 2008-09, ISBN 9780215540287). The Warm Front Scheme provides assistance to eligible households with the installation of heating and insulation measures in order to improve household energy efficiency and to reduce fuel poverty. Until the formation of the Department of Energy and Climate Change in 2008, the Scheme was the responsibility of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. Between June 2005 and March 2008, the Scheme assisted over 635,000 households at a cost of £852 million, and by 2010-11, cumulative Scheme funding is expected to reach £1,811 million. In 2007, over three million households were estimated to be in fuel poverty, and increases in domestic gas and electricity prices may have added a further 1.5 million households. A household is defined as ’fuel poor' when it needs to spend more than 10% of its net income on fuel to maintain an adequate heating regime. The Scheme continues to be poorly targeted despite some changes to the eligibility criteria. Nearly 75% of households entitled to a grant are unlikely to be in fuel poverty, whilst the Scheme is only available to 35% of all those households likely to be in fuel poverty, partly because the eligibility criteria include receipt of non-means tested benefits. Some £15.4 million was spent on providing energy efficient light bulbs, tank jackets and draught proofing, which have limited impact on overall energy efficiency, and are also unlikely on their own to lift households out of fuel poverty. The maximum grant available under the Scheme did not change between July 2005 and April 2009. Over the same period, labour costs for gas and oil central heating rose by 8.9% and costs for other services by 7.3%, with more applicants needing to contribute to the cost of the work being done. The Scheme may be failing the poorest and most vulnerable households as they are least likely to be able to make a contribution.

Tackling pensioner poverty

Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Work and Pensions Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
ISBN 13 : 9780215540485
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Tackling pensioner poverty written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Work and Pensions Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2009-07-30 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Issues in Environmental Law, Policy, and Planning: 2013 Edition

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Publisher : ScholarlyEditions
ISBN 13 : 149010934X
Total Pages : 1146 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Issues in Environmental Law, Policy, and Planning: 2013 Edition written by and published by ScholarlyEditions. This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 1146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Issues in Environmental Law, Policy, and Planning: 2013 Edition is a ScholarlyEditions™ book that delivers timely, authoritative, and comprehensive information about Science and Public Policy. The editors have built Issues in Environmental Law, Policy, and Planning: 2013 Edition on the vast information databases of ScholarlyNews.™ You can expect the information about Science and Public Policy in this book to be deeper than what you can access anywhere else, as well as consistently reliable, authoritative, informed, and relevant. The content of Issues in Environmental Law, Policy, and Planning: 2013 Edition has been produced by the world’s leading scientists, engineers, analysts, research institutions, and companies. All of the content is from peer-reviewed sources, and all of it is written, assembled, and edited by the editors at ScholarlyEditions™ and available exclusively from us. You now have a source you can cite with authority, confidence, and credibility. More information is available at http://www.ScholarlyEditions.com/.

Instrument Mixes for Environmental Policy

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9264018417
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book Instrument Mixes for Environmental Policy written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2007-05-31 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents case studies analysing instrument mixes applied in OECD countries to address household waste, non-point sources of water pollution in agriculture, residential energy efficiency, regional air pollution and emissions to air of mercury.

The Burning Question

Author : Catherine Mitchell
Publisher : Institute for Public Policy Research
ISBN 13 : 9781860302558
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book The Burning Question written by Catherine Mitchell and published by Institute for Public Policy Research. This book was released on 2004 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Urban Fuel Poverty

Author : Kristian Fabbri
Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 0128169532
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (281 download)

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Download or read book Urban Fuel Poverty written by Kristian Fabbri and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2019-07-04 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urban Fuel Poverty describes key approaches to defining and alleviating fuel poverty in cities using a multidisciplinary perspective and multiple case studies. It provides empirical knowledge on the levels and intensities of energy poverty in urban areas, along with new theoretical perspectives in conceptualizing the multidimensionality of energy poverty, with special focus given to the urban environment. Chapters discuss what energy poverty is in terms of taxonomy, stakeholders and affected parties, addressing the role of the economy and energy bills, the role of climate and city factors, the role of buildings, and the health and psychological impact on fuel poverty. The book addresses how to measure energy poverty, how to map it, and how to draw conclusions based on illness and social indicators. Finally, it explores measures to ‘fight’ fuel poverty, including policy and governance actions, building efficiency improvements and city planning. Bridges interdisciplinary divides between policy and economy, cities and buildings, and health and society Addresses the physical performance of urban fuel poverty and their effect on thermal comfort and human health Provides strategies and policies to mitigate energy and fuel poverty