Half a million Scots households face 'extreme fuel poverty' as energy price cap rises tomorrow
More than half a million households in Scotland will be plunged into "extreme fuel poverty" tomorrow when the energy price cap rises at midnight.
"The scale of this is absolutely unprecedented. And then you add in the financial crisis which the UK Government has created, and you can see how difficulties will get even greater for a lot of people."Average annual household bills had been expected to rise to £3,549 before the UK Government announced maximum charges earlier this month, as part of its energy bill relief scheme.
"If they had made that decision it would have helped reduce energy costs to a significant level - but they refused to do so. And it wholesale gas prices that are forcing up our overall energy costs."