London Fuel Poverty Partnership
Fuel Poverty is a major environmental health challenge in London. One in ten households in the capital are struggling to afford to pay their energy bills and heat their homes during the winter months. To help tackle this, the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan has set up the Fuel Poverty Partnership, working together with experts across the health, social justice and environment sectors to guide London’s work on fuel poverty.
Working across support services
The Fuel Poverty Partnership brings together stakeholders from sectors including local government, social housing, landlords, tenants, health, social care, academic, charities, energy suppliers and the energy efficiency industry. The group will not only assist the Mayor in delivering fuel poverty support but also work across support services to identify households living in fuel poverty so they can get the support they need. The Partnership will encourage all sectors and organisations to play their part and its members will act as advocates for improvements in policy and delivery.
The Mayor, London’s boroughs, landlords, charities and others in London are already doing a lot to fight fuel poverty. These efforts will be enhanced by greater leadership and collaboration across the sectors in dealing with the problem.
Partnership members
The Partnership is co-chaired by Shirley Rodrigues, Deputy Mayor for Environment & Energy, and Dr Debbie Weekes-Bernard, Deputy Mayor for Communities & Social Justice.
Membership includes:
- Association of Directors of Public Health London
- Association of Local Energy Officers London
- Association for Decentralised Energy
- Citizens Advice
- Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
- Energy UK
- Generation Rent
- London Councils
- London Fire Brigade
- National Energy Action
- National Housing Federation
- National Residential Landlords Association
- NHS England London
- Office for Health Improvement and Disparities
- Ofgem
- Runnymede Trust
Energy for Londoners
The Mayor’s fuel poverty programmes aim to make London’s homes warm, healthy and affordable, its workplaces more energy efficient, and to supply the capital with more local clean energy. Fuel poverty measures announced so far include:
Warmer Homes – Grant funding for heating and insulation measures that help fuel poor households to keep their homes warm in winter. The scheme helps owner-occupiers and private tenants on low incomes
Warmer Homes Advice Service – Grant funding to boroughs to create a pan-London fuel poverty advice and referral network
Meeting Notes
View the agendas and minutes from Fuel Poverty Partnership meetings.
May 2018
October 2018
January 2019
May 2019
October 2019
May 2022
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