Simon Francis, coordinator of the End Fuel Poverty Coalition which campaigns to lower home energy costs, said: “Scrapping support for heat pumps and energy efficiency programmes would lock the country into a continued cycle of high energy prices and fuel poverty.
“The reason households are facing rising costs today is because the country remains heavily dependent on oil and gas whose prices are set on volatile global markets.
“As the conflict in the Middle East shows, when tensions rise anywhere in the world the price of gas quickly follows.
“That is what pushes up energy bills, not investment in cleaner heating.
“The real way to cut bills for working people is to reduce the amount of gas we burn through better insulated homes, expand homegrown renewable power and reform energy pricing so households are no longer exposed to constant gas price shocks.”
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