Warmer Homes Scotland programme: annual review 2018-2019

Footnotes

1 http://www.gov.scot/About/Performance/scotPerforms/objectives

2 The new definition of fuel poverty, as set out in the Fuel Poverty (Target, Definition and Strategy) (Scotland) Act 2019, will:

• Focus on low income households by introducing a new income threshold which will be 90% of the UK MIS after housing, fuel and childcare costs are deducted; and
• Help us to better target our resources at those who are most in need of support, no matter where they live in Scotland.

The Fuel Poverty (Target, Definition and Strategy) (Scotland) Act 2019 can be found here -

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2019/10/contents/enacted