Campaigners are outraged at Jeremy Hunt's budget, saying that the plans will will leave more than seven million households facing fuel poverty this winter.
Campaigners reacted to the fiscal plan with calls for the government to go further in alleviating fuel poverty ahead of the cold winter months.
Simon Francis, coordinator of the End Fuel Poverty Coalition, said: ‘The cost of solving fuel poverty this winter is an additional £14 billion of support for those households who need it most. Mr Francis reacted sceptically to the chancellor’s pledge to provide £26 billion of targeted support to help the most vulnerable in society with cost of living pressures, including rising energy bills.
Other measures to alleviate pressures on struggling households have included cost of living payments for eight million people on low incomes. ‘Once again ordinary people are being made to pay for a crisis they didn’t create while the Tories are allowing oil and gas giants to hoard billions through massive loopholes in the windfall tax.’
‘The British public has every right to be angry when just a few weeks ago BP and Shell announced combined profits of £15 billion in only the third quarter of this year,’ she said.
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