Scottish Fuel Poverty Statement

The amendment

As an amendment to motion S1M-03350 in the name of Ms Margaret Curran (Scottish Fuel Poverty Statement), leave out from “commends” to end and insert “welcomes the publication of the Fuel Poverty Statement and the positive developments contained within it; accepts the need for a single entry point to the plethora of grant schemes and initiatives available; believes that, to eliminate fuel poverty, resources both human and financial must be in place to meet this aim; urges the Scottish Executive to extend the Warm Deal and Central Heating Programme to disabled people, the long-term sick and all pensioners with partial or obsolete systems at the earliest possible opportunity; considers the establishment of a Decent Homes Standard as fundamental to reducing fuel poverty, not least through energy efficiency measures; has serious concerns regarding hard to heat homes, the inflexible application of criteria used in the Central Heating Programme, the delay in installing central heating in Glasgow’s socially rented sector and the Executive’s definition of fuel poverty, and seeks the commitment of the Executive to liaise with Her Majesty’s Government on issues such as debt blocking, pre-payment meters and benefit uptake”.

No recorded vote on this amendment. Most motions are never debated, and many that are debated are agreed without a division. Vote records are published from 2011.

1. S1M-03350.1
   Scottish Fuel Poverty Statement

   Bill Aitken Con Lodged 4 Sep 2002
   No recorded vote

SNP 4

Party shown is each supporter’s party when the motion was published.

No contribution in the Official Report cites S1M-03350.2 by reference.