Motion no: 13
Proposing
Fermanagh Trades Council
Decision
Adopted
Conference notes that Northern Ireland was excluded from the Warm Home Discount Scheme when it was introduced in GB by the Westminster government in 2011.
Conference agrees that there is no justification for low-income households in NI to be treated less favourably than in GB, especially when we consider that NI has the highest rate of fuel poverty in the UK.
Conference supports the campaign initiated by the Age Sector Platform to integrate NI into the Warm Homes Scheme and directs the Executive Council to bring forward plans to campaign to ensure that NI households in fuel poverty receive the £140 per annum that they would receive if they lived in any other part of the UK.
