Local MP Welcomes Government Help to Keep the Poorest Warm This Winter

Tamworth MP, Christopher Pincher, has welcomed £360,759 of funding for Staffordshire County Council to help keep the poorest people in the local area warm this winter.

This investment comes from the Government’s “Warm Homes Healthy People” fund, which invited local authorities to bid for money from the Department of Health to reduce deaths over the winter months.

This money will help fund:

• Energy efficiency projects to the most vulnerable people
• Providing residents with better advice
• Ensuring better public awareness of cold weather
• Providing staff and volunteers with fuel poverty/cold weather awareness training.

Mr Pincher said, “Tamworth residents will be pleased to know the Government is putting over a third of a million pounds behind efforts to help keep the most vulnerable members of our community warm this winter.

”Along with discounts to energy bills, boosting cold weather payments, protecting winter fuel payments and getting customers the lowest tariffs, this action shows how serious Conservatives in government are about helping people with the cost of coping with the cold.

“This is one of my major concerns at Westminster and I will do all I can to keep the cost of energy, and measures to help reduce it, in the spotlight.”