Fuel poverty in the UK is defined as a household having to spend more than 10% of their income on maintaining an adequate level of energy and heating within the home.

The new regulations require a 40% betterment in energy efficiency for new houses, 25% for new flats and 15% for new buildings other than dwellings. Earlier this year, the Minister for Agriculture,

With the planet warming and the consequences of climate change evident across the globe, governments are at last taking more definite action to reduce fossil fuel emissions in an effort to restrict global warming to a minimum of 1.5 degrees.