Footnotes
- The House of Commons Library (February 2024), Gas and electricity prices during the ‘energy crisis’ and beyond , February 2023 – “-Under the January to March 2024 direct debit price cap the average annual bill for typical gas and electricity consumption is £1,928. This is below the £2,380 level under the Energy Price Guarantee from October 2022 to June 2023, but 59% higher than in Winter 2021/22.
- Introduction – Scottish House Condition Survey: 2022 Key Findings – gov.scot (www.gov.scot)
- Letter from John Swinney to Sir Keir Starmer, Tackling child poverty: letter from First Minister John Swinney to Sir Keir Starmer – gov.scot (www.gov.scot) – energy costs comprise around a fifth of the JRF essentials’ guarantee which the First Minister advocates.
- According to the Scottish House Condition Survey (SHCS) in 2022 27% of families were in fuel poverty and 10% were in extreme fuel poverty. In the SHCS ‘families’ are defined as “households which contain at least one child aged under 16.