Council leaders have been urged to join the campaign for a national home insulation programme that would lift 500,000 people out of fuel poverty, cut £200 a year off the energy bills of 10 million households and reduce domestic carbon emissions by 20 per cent. The leaders of all four political groups at the Local Government Association have written to the leaders of all councils in England and Wales asking them to lobby their local MPs over the proposals. The LGA is campaigning for councils to be put at the centre of the insulation scheme, which would be funded through the six main energy suppliers matching pound for pound the existing contribution households are already making through their bills to cut carbon emissions. These proposals form a central plank of the Association’s Small Change, Big Difference climate change campaign.

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20 August 2008