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Dept for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

Answer

Mr. Fisher: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how much has been spent on tackling fuel poverty in each year since 1997 in (a) England and (b) Stoke-on-Trent. [211707] Mr. Morley: The Warm Front Scheme the major programme to tackle fuel poverty in the private sector in England, was launched in June 2000. From that time until the end of January 2005 the annual expenditure on Warm Front in England was: £ million _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Approximate total spend 2000-01 72 2001-02 197 2002-03 163 2003-04 164 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. The budget available for 2004-05 is £169 million. The total approximate expenditure on Warm Front in Stoke-on-Trent Central during that period was: _________________________________________________________________________________________________. £ 2000-01 65,700 2001-02 1,120,000 2002-03 626,000 2003-04 615,000 2004-051 388,000 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 1 Up to end of January 2005. Annual Expenditure under the previous Home Energy Efficiency Scheme from June 1997 and May 2000 was approximately £60 million. The annual estimated expenditure in Stoke-on-Trent Central during that period was: £ _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Estimated expenditure 1997-98 70,400 1998-99 102,500 1999-2000 133,700 _________________________________________________________________________________________________.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

211707; 430 c1663-4W

Session

2004-05

Subjects

Housing Heating Government assistance Warm front scheme Central heating

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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